Abuse of Statistics Please answer as soon as possible Match each of the examples

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Abuse of Statistics
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Match each of the examples given to the type of abuse of statistics involved. To answer the question "what was the average score on the MATHfinal exam?" you ask your ten closest friends in the course what they got on the final exam and average those scores. 1. To answer the question "what was the average score on the MATH A final exam?" you randomly choose 4 students in the course and average their scores. 2 Using loaded questions 3. A headline claims "Canadian income taxes are at their highest ever!" and states that on average Canadian families this year paid $22 162 in tax per household. Although this is the highest average tax ever in absolute dollars, the percentage income tax is lower than in the previous year. Using (unjustified) precise numbers Small sample Using distorted percentages (partial information) 4. Your high school instructor claimed to have very accurately computed your final grade because she has computed it to the nearest 100th of a percent. However, she accidentally recorded one of your assignment scores as a O when it should have been at 10 Biased (non-representative) sample It was my daughter's turn to pick the movie to watch last weekend. My son asked my daughter: Do you really want to watch that movie "finding Nemo" that has the really scary part with the shark that you are really afraid of? 5,

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example 1. is associated with "biased sample"  type of abuse because he select his closest friends

example 2. is associated with "small sample" type of abuse because he select only 4 student to take the average score.

example 3 is associated with "using distorted percentage" type of abuse

example 4 is associated with "using precise numbers " type of abuse

example 5 is associated with using loaded question type of abuse

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