The survey has bias. (a) Determine the type of bias. (b) Suggest a remedy. An anti-drunk driving advocate wants to estimate the percentage of people who favor increasing the penalty for drunk driving. She conducts a nationwide survey of 1290 randomly selected adults 18 years and older. The interviewer asks the respondents "Do you favor harsher penalties for those convicted for drunk driving?" (a) Which of these best describes the bias in the survey? Response bias Nonresponse bias Undercoverage bias Sampling bias | (b) How can the bias be remedied? A. The interviewer should reword the question B. The interviewer should survey people under 18 as well. O C. The interviewer should survey people by phone and in person O D. The interviewer should survey a greater number of adults 18 and older.

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Ethan Hanson

Mathematics

4 March, 02:26

The survey has bias. (a) Determine the type of bias. (b) Suggest a remedy. An anti-drunk driving advocate wants to estimate the percentage of people who favor increasing the penalty for drunk driving. She conducts a nationwide survey of 1290 randomly selected adults 18 years and older. The interviewer asks the respondents "Do you favor harsher penalties for those convicted for drunk driving?" (a) Which of these best describes the bias in the survey? Response bias Nonresponse bias Undercoverage bias Sampling bias | (b) How can the bias be remedied? A. The interviewer should reword the question B. The interviewer should survey people under 18 as well. O C. The interviewer should survey people by phone and in person O D. The interviewer should survey a greater number of adults 18 and older.

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Erick Barton · Answer 1

The type of bias best described by the survey is Response bias and the Bias can be remedied through C. The interviewer should survey people by phone and in person.

Step-by-step explanation:

Response bias (also called survey bias) is the tendency of a person to answer questions on a survey untruthfully or inaccurately. For example, they may feel pressure to give answers that are socially acceptable.

When interviews are being conducted by phone the respondent might not feel any pressure to answer inaccurately but would rather speaks his mind.