Homework Help: Math

Posted by Matt on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:40am.

Identify the misuse or misrepresentation of statistics:
“60% of all college students watch less than 2 hours of television per day.” This conclusion was reached by a college student after she had questioned 520 randomly selected students exiting the library. What is wrong with her survey?

Math - dm, Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 1:28am
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research - PsyDAG, Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 1:49pm
Biased sample. If students spend much of their time in the library, wouldn't that leave less time to watch TV?

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