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Description:

Alexis wants to find out approximately how many hours of television the people in her hometown watch per day.

Which group should she survey for the most representative results?


Transcript

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Okay Mash bumpers here kind of word problem ish thing

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for you Alexis wants to find out approximately how many

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hours of television the people in her home town watch

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per day Which group should she survey for the most

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representative results But one of the golden rules of statistics

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is that samples must always be random for the results

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to be valid And representative Think about it this way

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If we wanted to know the average amount of netflix

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watch by people in new york while we wouldn't survey

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the top ten self proclaimed netflix addicts we'd want to

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survey ten random people in new york Well random samples

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should include a diverse group of people like a group

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of high school students A isn't diverse in terms of

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age while group of wealthy people isn't economically diverse Alexis

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mom's co workers probably aren't very diverse in terms of

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money or age like annie but a few people she

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encounters randomly in a highly trafficked grocery store Maybe that's

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not perfect but well everybody's got to eat right And

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that's the most diverse of this group though the answer

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