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QuestionDetails: Question:     The Newport Chronicle ran a survey byasking readers to call in their response to this question:" Do yousupport the development of atomic weapons that could kill millionsof innocent people?" It was reported that 20 readers responded and87% said "no" while 13% said "yes".Identify four major flaws inthis survey. Help please on this question. QuestionDetails: Question:     The Newport Chronicle ran a survey byasking readers to call in their response to this question:" Do yousupport the development of atomic weapons that could kill millionsof innocent people?" It was reported that 20 readers responded and87% said "no" while 13% said "yes".Identify four major flaws inthis survey. Help please on this question. QuestionDetails: Question:     The Newport Chronicle ran a survey byasking readers to call in their response to this question:" Do yousupport the development of atomic weapons that could kill millionsof innocent people?" It was reported that 20 readers responded and87% said "no" while 13% said "yes".Identify four major flaws inthis survey. Help please on this question.

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1. The question is leading. It contains emotive words such as'could kill millions of people' that would prompt people to answer'no' rather than yes. For a fairer trial, unbiased language shouldbe used. 2. Only 20 readers responded, which is a very small sample size. Novalid statistical inference on the views of all readers or thepopulation can be drawn from these 20 people. 3. If 87% said 'no', then this translates to 87% x 20 = 17.4people. You cannot have 0.4 of a person responding to a question.Thus these percentages are wrong. (They should all be onesdivisible by 5, as 100%/20 respondents = 5%. 87% and 13% are notdivisible by 5%.) 4. The survey asks readers to call in. This means that only thosewho hold strong views either way are likely to call in, and the'silent minority' of moderates do not have their views counted. Fora better survey, people should be randomly selected and called.

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