a. Identify the population.
b. Identify the sample.
c. Is the sample representative of the population of all U.S. moviegoers? Explain your answer.
d. Consider the following statement: "Among the 1800 artists, historians, critics, and other cultural dignitaries polled by AFI, the top-ranking male and female American screen legends were Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn." Is this statement descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.
e. Suppose that the statement in part (d) is changed to: "Based on the AFI poll, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are the top-ranking male and female American screen legends among all artists, historians, critics, and other cultural dignitaries." Is this statement descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.
At the beginning of this chapter, we discussed the results of a survey by the American Film Institute (AFI). Now that you have learned some of the basic terminology of statistics, we want you to examine that survey in greater detail. Answer each of the following questions pertaining to the survey.