A manual used by the Dallas County district attorney’s office from 1968 to 1976

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A manual used by the Dallas County district attorney’s office from 1968 to 1976 advised, “Do not take [. . .] a member of any minority race on a jury no matter how rich or well educated.”

a. Was this an attempt to bias trial results at the sampling stage or at the stage where jurors must reach a conclusion of guilty/not guilty?10

b. Inthisexample,whichofthesebest describes the source of bias: using a volunteer sample, sampling frame not matching population, using a convenience sample, taking a haphazard sample?

Explanation / Answer

a)

as you can see this is an attempt to bias trail results at the sampling stage because we are taking only the member that is not a minority race

b)

using a convenience sample

in that way we will have a source of bias

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