A Local Talk Radio Station Conducts a Poll to Determine

question 14

Multiple Choice

A local talk radio station conducts a poll to determine if its listeners favor or oppose the president's proposed actions on judicial appointments. To express their opinions, listeners are asked to call, email, or text-message the radio station. The poll results in 89.38 percent of the responders opposing the proposed judicial appointments.
In this situation, 89.38 percent is:

• A) likely to overestimate the true percentage since, typically, only people with strong (and usually negative) opinions will respond.
• B) likely to underestimate the true percentage since, typically, only people with strong (and usually positive) opinions will respond.
• C) exact since it came from a census.
• D) very accurate since it came from a simple random sample.

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