A student wishes to determine the percentage of students in his school that bring a sack lunch. He decides to poll every student in his grade level. It is found that 30 percent on the students polled bring a sack lunch. The student concludes that 30 percent of the students in the school bring a sack lunch. Identify the abuse of statistics.

A.small sample
B.loaded question
C.bad sample
D.nonresponse

Question

A student wishes to determine the percentage of students in his school that bring a sack lunch. He decides to poll every student in his grade level. It is found that 30 percent on the students polled bring a sack lunch. The student concludes that 30 percent of the students in the school bring a sack lunch. Identify the abuse of statistics.
 	
	A.small sample
	B.loaded question
	C.bad sample
	D.nonresponse

marihelenh · Answer

Well, the student is only sampling a portion of the population. He wants to determine the whole school, but is only doing one grade. What do you think?

anonymous · Answer

@chippydubes 
Is one class a sample that can represent a whole school? The class may be large, but a sample has to represent a population, and one class, obviously, cannot represent a school.