You Are the Owner of a Camping Site That Has

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You are the owner of a camping site that has a small pond with fish, and you want to know approximately how many fish are currently in the pond.For this purpose, you catch 30 fish and mark them with a special ink that will take a few days to be washed away.The ink doesn't affect the fish in any way.The fish are returned promptly to the pond after being marked.The next day at the same time of day you return and catch 30 fish, and you find out that 5 of these fish are marked.

• A)This is an example of descriptive statistics, because you are describing the number of fish in the pond.
• B)This is not an example of statistics.
• C)This is an example of inferential statistics, because you will use the catch on the second day to infer the population of fish.
• D)This is an example of descriptive statistics as the goal was to determine the proportion marked out of the 30 caught the second day.
• E)This procedure would not allow you to estimate the population of fishes.

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Definitions:

Pragmatism

A philosophical approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application.

End Result

The final outcome or conclusion of a process or a series of actions.

Rule Utilitarianism

A form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the rule of which it is an instance."

Act Utilitarianism

A moral theory that suggests an action is right if it leads to the most happiness for the greatest number of people, evaluating each act separately.