Aaron Kay and His Colleagues Gave Different Articles, Before the 2000

question 24

Multiple Choice

Aaron Kay and his colleagues gave different articles, before the 2000 U.S. presidential election, to people showing in one set that Al Gore was most likely to win and in another set that George W. Bush was most likely to win. The subjects rated:

• A) the candidates most desirable if the article depicted his as most likely to be president.
• B) the candidates the same as before receiving the article information.
• C) Bush higher if they were Republicans and Gore higher if they were Democrats.
• D) the race as too close to call and would look to Florida to decide it.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A set of numbers, coming from the statistics of a sample, which probably includes the value of a parameter from a population that is not known.

Sample Proportion

The fraction of the sample that represents a particular category or characteristic, often used to estimate the proportion in the larger population.

Point Estimate

A single value or statistic used to estimate an unknown population parameter based on sample data.

Population Mean

The mean value of every number within a given population.