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A newspaperarticle began," Almost half of the USA's secretaries would ratherwork for a man than a woman, even though a male boss is more likelyto ask them to clean the coffee pot, says a Working Womansurvey" (USA Today). This is the result of a "poll of 1,100 readersin the magazine's May issue." Of these readers, 46% prefer to workfor a man, 5% for a woman, and 49% say it doesn'tmatter. a.What kind of sampling do you think was used? b.What population do the results apply to, according tothe newspaper? c.In what way might the sampling method bebiased? d.Discuss the issue of undercoverage. A newspaperarticle began," Almost half of the USA's secretaries would ratherwork for a man than a woman, even though a male boss is more likelyto ask them to clean the coffee pot, says a Working Womansurvey" (USA Today). This is the result of a "poll of 1,100 readersin the magazine's May issue." Of these readers, 46% prefer to workfor a man, 5% for a woman, and 49% say it doesn'tmatter. a.What kind of sampling do you think was used? b.What population do the results apply to, according tothe newspaper? c.In what way might the sampling method bebiased? d.Discuss the issue of undercoverage. a.What kind of sampling do you think was used? b.What population do the results apply to, according tothe newspaper? c.In what way might the sampling method bebiased? d.Discuss the issue of undercoverage.

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a) It is nothing but a simple random sample. b) Readers in the magazin given in a population, these resultswill apply. c) The sampling method be biased, if it is not a probabilitysampling. d) The undercoverage means that it is non probability sampling.In this sampling method where some elements of the population haveno chance of selection (these are sometimes referred to as 'out ofcoverage'/'undercovered'), or where the probability of selectioncan't be accurately determined.

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