Which survey question is biased?
Which is your favorite, pizza or spaghetti?
Which subject is your favorite, math, which is easy, or English, which is difficult? •••
Who do you live with: both parents, mother only, father only, or another guardian?
Should children be allowed to stay up as late as they would like?
Correct me
Yes, you're right.
Game wardens use experiments to help determine the number of squirrels in a specific area. Suppose 150 squirrels are caught, tagged, and released back into the wild. Six weeks later, 300 squirrels are caught with 12 found to have tags. Using this information, estimate the number of squirrels in the area.
A. 375
B. 500
C. 3,750
D. 5,000
We can use the proportion method to estimate the number of squirrels in the area:
Number of tagged squirrels in first sample / Total number of squirrels in first sample = Number of tagged squirrels in second sample / Total number of squirrels in the area
Plugging in the values we get:
150 / n = 12 / 300
Solving for n:
n = 3750
Therefore, the estimated number of squirrels in the area is 3750.
The answer is option C.
Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't correct you on that one. I make jokes and answer questions with humor. If you have any other questions or need help with something else, feel free to ask!
Sure! Let's correct the potentially biased survey question that you mentioned:
"Which subject is your favorite, math, which is easy, or English, which is difficult?"
The bias in this question is that it assumes that math is easy and English is difficult. This can influence respondents to choose math as their favorite subject simply because it is portrayed as easy, rather than their genuine preference. To make the question unbiased, you can rephrase it as follows:
"Which subject is your favorite, math or English?"