Maria opposes capital punishment and wants to find out if a majority of voters in her state

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Maria opposes capital punishment and wants to find out if a majority of voters in her state support it. She goes to a church picnic and asks everyone there for their opinion. Because most of them oppose capital punishment, she concludes that a vote in her state would go against it. Explain what is wrong with Maria’s approach.

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Essential Statistics

ISBN: 9780134134406

2nd Edition

Authors: Robert Gould, Colleen N. Ryan, Rebecca Wong

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