sampling survey bias

A U.S. senator from Maine wants to find out the opinion of the voters in his state on issues concerning education.  The office of the senator passes out surveys on ten street corners in the five major cities in the state of Maine.  Is this random?

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Marcos wants to find out how many students at his school like to go to the movies. Which survey method is likely to produce a representative survey?

• Ask the boys in the boys locker room.
• Ask the 25 students in his homeroom class.
• Ask students coming out of a movie theater.
• Ask half of the 34 students on the soccer team.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of sampling?  A student asks 12 friends to participate in a psychology experiment. 

• Random sample
• Convenience sample
• Stratified Random sample
• Census

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Interview every 10th student who enters the school in the morning.

• simple random

• voluntary response

• systematic

• convenience

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RI.K.7

Political webpages often allow readers to rate (if they want to) whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the President's decision on any given situation. This is a form of:

• Self-Selected

• Convenience Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Systematic Random Sampling

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She survey's the first 30 students who come into her class.

• Convenience Sampling

• Systematic Random Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Volunteer response

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Ana wants to know the average student’s opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results?

• thirty students who are often tardy
• thirty students who are rarely tardy
• thirty of her friends
• thirty randomly selected students from her school

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

What sampling method are you using if you survey the students in the school whose names are picked out of a hat?

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Simple Random

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Do you prefer pizza or hotdogs?

• Biased

• Unbiased

Should more money be wasted on athletics or spent to support the new, improved choir program?

• Biased

• Unbiased

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6