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Sampling & Bias

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To learn about teenagers' opinions of different social media platforms, a survey was given to students of one high school. This sample is...

a)

representative

b)

biased

c)

random

2.

16 out of the 20 people who called into a radio station said that they enjoy the station's morning programming. What type of bias is demonstrated here?

a)

Voluntary Response Bias

b)

Nonresponse Bias

c)

Undercoverage Bias

3.

An employer wants to know how their 500 employees like working for them. Which is the most representative sample?

a)

Ask the first 75 people to show up for work

b)

Randomly select the names of 10 employees

c)

Poll the Employees of the Month for the past year

d)

Randomly select the names of 75 employees

4.

To find out what sort of events they should plan, the student government officers at Truth send a survey to 30 students whose names were randomly selected. The population they are interested in is...

a)

The 30 students who were sent the survey

b)

Only the students who respond to the survey

c)

All students at Truth

d)

All middle school students in DC

5.

To find out what sort of events they should plan, the student government officers at Truth send a survey to 30 students whose names were randomly selected. The sample is...

a)

The 30 students who were sent the survey

b)

All students at Truth

c)

The student government officers

6.

Which is an example of a random sample?

a)

Polling the first 10 people who enter a room

b)

Asking a survey question to people who call in

c)

Drawing 10 names from a hat

7.

Why should samples be randomly selected?

a)

for control

b)

to reduce bias

c)

so we don't get the same answers from everyone

8.

A _______ is a part of a the group we are interested in gathering data on that is being surveyed.

a)

Representative

b)

Population

c)

Sample

9.

A _________ is a sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected.

a)

Sample

b)

Population

c)

Random Sample

d)

Bias

10.

Leslie surveyed the 20 youngest students in the elementary school. What type of bias is this?

a)

Voluntary Response Bias

b)

Nonresponse Bias

c)

Undercoverage Bias

11.

Volunteers for a politician's campaign called 100 randomly selected citizens to conduct a survey. Only 50 people agreed to answer the survey questions, and most of them were supporters of the candidate. This is an example of...

a)

Voluntary Response Bias

b)

Nonresponse Bias

c)

Undercoverage Bias