Scenario 22-3 The Following Table Shows the Preferences for the Five Voters

question 25

Multiple Choice

Scenario 22-3
The following table shows the preferences for the five voters in a city regarding how to deal with the city's diseased trees.

A = do nothing
B = Follow the expert's advice to remove every tree
C = remove every 4th tree now and perhaps more later
D = use an untested spraying alternative
-Refer to Scenario 22-3.Consider the public policy for dealing with the diseased trees.According to plurality rule - the policy that the most people rank first - which policy wins?

• A)A
• B)B
• C)C

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Definitions:

Unbiasedness

A statistical property indicating that an estimator or methodology does not systematically favor certain outcomes over others.

Sample Variance

The measure of variability in a sample dataset, calculated as the sum of squared deviations from the mean, divided by the number of observations minus one.

Population Variance

A measure of how data points in a given population are dispersed from the average value.

Unbiased Estimator

A statistical estimator whose expected value is equal to the true parameter of the population being studied.