Read the question and the answer from another student. Give a positive response
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Read the question and the answer from another student. Give a positive response to their answer.
Please list any references. Check out this snippet from Family Circle magazine (January, 2009, Liz Plosser): Motorists who talk on a cell phone while driving are 9% slower to hit the brakes, 19% slower to resume normal speed after braking and four times more likely to crash. Interesting, eh? Need more information? Sorry, that's all the information this article provided. So, what can we conclude? How reliable are these results? Can you believe what the author tells you? Why or why not? Pretend you're a manager for one of the major cell phone service providers in the U.S. You've been asked by a major news magazine to speak to these "accusations." What would you say? Use your knowledge of "statistics for managers" to level some well-founded criticisms of the conclusions above. Careful! We cannot use personal opinions to battle statistics like these! Instead, you must explain why the numbers reported in Family Circle may, or may not, accurately represent the population of U.S. drivers. There are 100 possible answers to this conference topic.
Answer: The details by the Family Circle magazine (January, 2009, Liz Plosser) may or may not be true. However, there are no enough data to conclude the research. There is no mention of where the research was conducted in terms of geographical coverage, the age of the interviewees, and their occupations. There are many factors that may determine how efficient a driver is. Failure to present further information on the data collection method means that one cannot conclude to the findings by the research.
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Talking on phone while driving can lead to fatal road accidents due to many reasons such as not applying brakes on time, inattentiveness on the road leading to not following traffic rules etc.
These results are not totally reliable because it's not only the cell phones that make bad drivers, there are many other factors which have not been included in this study. Drinking is one of the most common reasons of bad driving, however nothing has been mentioned about the drunk drivers responsible for most of the road accidents.
As a manager of a cell-phone company, to tackle these accusations, I should have clear logical thinking. I can argue that the sample space of the study has not been mentioned, hence it may be biased. To comment on such a crucial topic, the sample space of the study should be very large, and it should include people of different age, gender etc so that the whole of the nation may be represented.
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