A newspaper wants to gauge public opinion about legalization of marijuana. The sample size formula indicates that

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A newspaper wants to gauge public opinion about legalization of marijuana. The sample size formula indicates that it need a random sample of 875 people to get the desired margin of error. But surveys cost money, and it can only afford to randomly sample 100 people. Here’s a tempting alternative: If it places a question about that issue on its website, it will get more than 1000 responses within a day at little cost. Is it better off with the random sample of 100 responses or the website volunteer sample of more than 1000 responses?

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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data

ISBN: 9780321997838

4th Edition

Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg

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