Question

PLEASE HELP WILL MEDAL AND FAN!

Is the sample representative of the population?

population: chocolate consumers
sample: surveys inside a company's chocolate bar wrappers that are completed and returned to the company

A.

representative

B.

not representative

Answer 1

A

Answer 2

TNX

Answer 3

no it's not representative because you have volunteer response bias

the ones responding are usually either very happy or very angry with the product. The avg consumer won't bother to take the time to do the survey

Answer 4

so A or B

Answer 5

i say A still, but jim makes a good point

Answer 6

SO B RIGHT

Answer 7

what do you think it is?

Answer 8

Of course, you could get some consumers who are a mix of happy/angry with the product, but usually surveys are filled out when there is some motivation behind it. That motivation is usually when the product is faulty and the consumer wants to let the company know in some way.

But yeah, it's B

Answer 9

b

Answer 10

a better way is to randomly pick people who buy chocolate and ask them a few simple questions

Answer 11

k its b i am convinced

Answer 12

@jim
so people who respond to surveys are either very happy with the product or the very angry. this does not represent the 'mean' or average person

good explanation