If Two Polling Firms Asked Identical Questions of the Same

question 70

Multiple Choice

If two polling firms asked identical questions of the same group of 1,000 people, yet reported different results, this difference would likely be caused by

• A)failure to achieve a random sample.
• B)sampling error.
• C)the house effect.
• D)push polling.
• E)All of these choices are true.

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