Tabitha is gathering a particular species of plant to test for its resistance to pesticides. She decides to select her test plants from one side of a highway.

Which type of procedural error is being described?

experimental design

selection bias

human error

Question

Tabitha is gathering a particular species of plant to test for its resistance to pesticides. She decides to select her test plants from one side of a highway.

Which type of procedural error is being described?

experimental design

selection bias

human error

Mercury · Answer

thoughts on this one? as a major hint notice how she's only getting her plants from one specific spot on the highway, so this is an issue with sampling