Bias in surveys and sampling 2022

What type of bias is present in this survey?

A parent randomly selects 120 houses in her neighborhood to ask, "Do you support funding for kindergarten?" Only 10 respond to the survey.

• Wording of the question bias

• Undercoverage

• Response bias

• Nonresponse bias

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of bias is present in this survey?

An organization sets up a hotline where citizens can call in and give their opinion on whether they support free kindergarten education.

• Voluntary response bias

• Wording of the the question bias

• Response bias

• Nonresponse bias

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of bias is present in this survey?

The DMV want to find out about good driving habits. They survey 100 random 16 year old new drivers after they pass their driving test.

• Wording of the question bias

• Undercoverage

• Response bias

• Nonresponse bias

• Voluntary response bias

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of bias is present in this survey?

A nonprofit group does a SRS where one of the questions asks "Do you support the suspension of the need to ask for support of voters to NOT increase taxes or do you deny the need to relegate this question to a ballot issue or special amendment?"

• Wording of the question bias

• Undercoverage

• Response bias

• Nonresponse bias

• Voluntary response bias

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What type of bias is present in this survey?

A school wants to ask about the prevalence of drug use in teens. They ask 1000 teens at registration if they would like to take a survey on their drug use as they are sitting with their parents.

• Wording of the question bias

• Undercoverage

• Response bias

• Nonresponse bias

• Voluntary response bias

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

In order to select a random sample of 25 seniors, Jacob writes each student's name on a piece of paper, puts them in a hat, and then draws 25 at random. Which of the following methods has Jacob performed?

• Simple Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Sample

• Systematic Sample

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list.  Which type of sampling method is this?

• Simple
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Cluster

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

An independent research company wants to go door to door to survey people in the city of Fontana. The company decides to number all blocks within the city limit, randomly choose 1 block and survey all households on that block.

This is an example of:

• Simple Random Sample

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Random Sample

• Systematic Random Sampling

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.  

• Cluster
• Systematic
• Stratified
• Simple

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

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.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6