Q. 38 - The Practice of Statistics for AP

Question

Teens" online profiles Describe a possible source of error that is not included in the margin of error for the $95\%$ confidence interval in Exercise 36

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

There are $3$ possible sources of errors.

Step1: Concept Information

Showing the possible sources of error that are not included in the margin of error.

Step 2: Explanation

Three different causes of error are not taken into consideration by the margin of error (because the margin of error only measures the sampling error).

Due to selection bias, a segment of the population will be omitted.

When a process is utilized that yields findings that differ from the true value, response bias is measured (could be caused by people answering untruthfully).

When there isn't enough data for everyone in the sample, nonresponse bias occurs.