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A survey team counts people, animals or objects. Those things being measured are called:Read the answer and worked solution →A magazine polled voters from 1916 onward and got five elections right. That magazine was the:Read the answer and worked solution →When the votes were counted, Roosevelt's share of the popular vote was:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1936 poll failed because the people surveyed were not a good representation of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Only about what fraction of the mailed surveys came back?Read the answer and worked solution →The people who answered differed from those who did not. That flaw is called:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1936 only richer households had telephones, cars and magazine subscriptions. So the survey reached the:Read the answer and worked solution →A researcher takes an ordered list and picks every tenth name. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A school wants every grade represented, so it samples inside each grade. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →In a stratified sample, the groups the population is split into are called:Read the answer and worked solution →An engineer picks five crates at random and tests every phone inside them. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A reporter stops whoever happens to walk past. That kind of sample is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →A convenience sample should not be used in a statistical setting because it is not:Read the answer and worked solution →In a list of shoe sizes, the size that turns up most often is the:Read the answer and worked solution →To find the median, line up the values in order and pick the one in the:Read the answer and worked solution →A dataset has an even count of values. The median might therefore be:Read the answer and worked solution →To get the mean, add up all the values and then divide by their:Read the answer and worked solution →Two numbers describe spread in a dataset: the standard deviation and the:Read the answer and worked solution →The standard deviation is roughly the average distance of each value from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Working out a standard deviation by hand, even for a small dataset, is:Read the answer and worked solution →In a spreadsheet, the fastest way to get a standard deviation is a built in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the sample typesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the centre measuresRead the answer and worked solution →Run the sampling gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the statistics wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Centre or spreadRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the survey ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Statistics bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A survey team counts people, animals or objects. Those things being measured are called:

  1. Units
  2. Unions
  3. Umpires
  4. Utopias
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Correct answer: A. Units

1. Something must be measured or surveyed. 2. Observations made on them are the data. 3. The things themselves are units. _Source: OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, Chapter 8, Statistics._

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A magazine polled voters from 1916 onward and got five elections right. That magazine was the:

  1. Literary Design
  2. Literary Digest
  3. Literary Diary
  4. Literary Debate
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Correct answer: B. Literary Digest

1. It was a respected weekly newsmagazine. 2. Its poll ran before each election. 3. It was the Literary Digest. _Source: OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, Chapter 8, Statistics._

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When the votes were counted, Roosevelt's share of the popular vote was:

  1. 26 percent
  2. 61 percent
  3. 16 percent
  4. 6 percent
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Correct answer: B. 61 percent

1. The poll had him well behind. 2. He in fact won comfortably. 3. His share was 61 percent. _Source: OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, Chapter 8, Statistics._

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