Statistics Sampling Types

Which of the following is most likely a population as opposed to a sample?

• People who subscribe to online Star Newspaper

• People who read Star Newspaper

• People who respond to a Life Style survey conducted by Star Newspaper

• People who buy physical copies of Star Newspaper

Determine whether the statement describes a population or a sample.

The types of cars of all the employees at a software company.

• Population

• Sample

If you survey every third house on a street, what type of sampling technique are you using?

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

The president of a college randomly selects 2 students from each department to serve on a student advisory board.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys.

She picks the student in every 5th seat.

• Simple Random

• Systematic

• voluntary response

• convenience

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

State the type of sample. In order to determine the average IQ of ninth-grade students, a school psychologist obtains a list of all schools in the local public school system. She randomly selects five of these schools and administers an IQ test to all ninth-grade students at the selected schools.

• Stratified Random Sample

• Cluster Sample

• SRS

• Random Sample

Which of the following doesn’t result in some form of bias?

• Choosing AP students to survey regarding their GPA in order to estimate the average GPA in a school.

• Polling a group of potential voters outside a Republican campaign office in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who favor a particular candidate.

• Surveying people who work in the marketing department of a large corporation in order to assess employee satisfaction with management policies.

• Choosing a stratified random sample of juniors and seniors at a high school in order to estimate the proportion of juniors and seniors who plan to go on to college.

• Asking shoppers leaving a grocery store if they think groceries should cost less in order to estimate the proportion of city residents who think groceries cost too much.