Respondents Are Given Misleading Information in the Questions They Are

question 39

Multiple Choice

Respondents are given misleading information in the questions they are asked in order to persuade them to vote against a candidate in

• A) convention polls.
• B) publicity polls.
• C) push polls.
• D) scientific polls.
• E) pundit polls.

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Definitions:

70th Percentile

A statistical measure indicating that an individual or value falls into a position where 70% of the population scored below them.

Central Tendency

Statistical measures that summarize a data set by identifying the central position within that data set, commonly using mean, median, and mode.

Extreme Scores

Statistical outliers in a data set that are significantly higher or lower than most of the data.

Variability

The degree to which data points in a dataset differ from each other and from their mean, indicating the dispersion or spread.