The website www.popvssoda.com invites people to indicate whether they refer to carbonated beverages as pop or soda

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The website www.popvssoda.com invites people to indicate whether they refer to carbonated beverages as €œpop€ or €œsoda€ or €œcoke€ or something else. As of December 30, 2013, the website had received 350,847 responses from the United States, broken down as follows:

Other Pop 131,403 Soda 149,377 Total Coke 54,072 350,847 15,995


a. Determine a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion who would answer €œsoda.€
b. Based on this confidence interval, would you say that the sample proportion who answered €œsoda€ is statistically significantly less than 0.50? Would you say that the difference is practically important? Explain your answers.

c. Based on how the sample was selected, do you have concerns about generalizing from this sample to any population? Explain.

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Introduction To Statistical Investigations

ISBN: 9781118172148

1st Edition

Authors: Beth L.Chance, George W.Cobb, Allan J.Rossman Nathan Tintle, Todd Swanson Soma Roy

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