Student Researchers Collected Data on Name Awareness of a Local

question 76

Multiple Choice

Student researchers collected data on name awareness of a local store. The researchers found that three-fourths of the people who refused to respond were members of the Greek system. If the Greek students who refused to participate in the survey were truly different on some key dimension from those who actually responded to the______________survey,______________error could bias the research results.

• A) observation
• B) sampling
• C) response
• D) nonresponse
• E) noncoverage

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Definitions:

Normal Population

A group of individuals or elements that have a distribution following a normal curve.

Significance Level

The threshold at which the results of a statistical test are considered to be statistically significant.

Population Mean

The average value of all observations or measurements in a given population.

Random Sample

A subset of a population selected in a manner that ensures each member has an equal chance of being chosen.