A researcher is studying the age of U.S. freshmen. She randomly samples 250 stud

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A researcher is studying the age of U.S. freshmen. She randomly samples 250 students from all U.S. colleges. The average age of the college students in her sample is an example of a: A. Statistic B. Parameter C. Median D. Population E. None of these In order to capture the opinions of an entire college campus as to whether or not Steve Jobs should have been TIME magazine's "person of the year, " an electronic survey is sent to the entire campus. (a) Give one example of why the population the "entire college campus" is ambiguous. That is, what is at least one questionable aspect of this definition of the population? (b) What type of sampling method may be creating bias in this case? A. Simple Random Sample B. Stratified Sample C. Voluntary Sample D. Convenience Sample E. Haphazard Sample

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1. This will be a Statistic.

Option A is correct.

2. a) The population of entire college campus is ambiguous because the frame is not defined i.e. getting the entire list of students in the entire campus is not feasible.

b) Option C is correct.

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