Exam 1: Defining and Collecting Data

SCENARIO 1-3 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Scenario 1-3, if a customer survey questionnaire is included in all the Blu-ray players made and sold by the company over the past 12 months, this method of collecting data will most like suffer from

SCENARIO 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S.a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Scenario 1-2, the possible responses to the question "Are you 1.Currently employed, 2.Unemployed but actively looking for job, 3.Unemployed and quit looking for job?" result in

SCENARIO 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S.a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Scenario 1-2, the possible responses to the question "How many out of every 10 U.S.voters do you think feel that the U.S.economy is in a good shape?" are values from a

SCENARIO 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the question "What is your age at last birthday ?" results in:

A population frame for a survey contains a listing of 6,179 names.Using a table of random numbers, which of the following code numbers will appear on your list?

The chancellor of a major university was concerned about alcohol abuse on her campus and wanted to find out the proportion of students at her university who visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week.Her assistant took a random sample of 250 students.The portion of students in the sample who visited campus bars on the weekend before the final exam week is an example of __________.

SCENARIO 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S.a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Scenario 1-2, the possible responses to the question "How many more months do you think the U.S.economy will require to get out of a recession?" are values from a

SCENARIO 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S.a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Scenario 1-2, the possible responses to the question "On the scale of 1 to 100 with 1 being extremely anxious and 100 being total not anxious, rate your level of anxiety in this U.S.economy" are values from a

The Human Resources Director of a large corporation wishes to develop an employee benefits package and decides to select 500 employees from a list of all (N = 40,000) workers in order to study their preferences for the various components of a potential package.Information obtained from the sample will be used to draw conclusions about the true population _______.

The brand of TV one owns is an example of an ordinal scaled variable.

Since a _______ is not a randomly selected probability sample, there is no way to know how well it represents the overall population.

The amount of time a student spent studying for an exam is an example of a continuous variable.

The Dean of Students conducted a survey on campus.Number of credits currently enrolled for is an example of a _______ numerical variable.

Which of the following is a continuous quantitative (numerical)variable?

SCENARIO 1-1 The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. -Referring to Scenario 1-1, the possible responses to the question "Out of a 100-point score with 100 being the highest and 0 being the lowest, what is your satisfaction level with the Blu-ray player that you purchased results in:

The Dean of Students conducted a survey on campus.Grade point average (GPA)is an example of a _______ numerical variable.

The amount of alcohol consumed by a person per week will be measured on an interval scale.

Faculty rank (professor to lecturer)is an example of discrete numerical data.

SCENARIO 1-2 A Wall Street Journal poll asked 2,150 adults in the U.S.a series of questions to find out their view on the U.S.economy. -Referring to Scenario 1-2, the possible responses to the question "How would you rate the condition of the U.S.economy with 1 = excellent, 2 = good, 3 = decent, 4 = poor, 5 = terrible?" result in

The answer to the question "What is your favorite color?" is an example of an ordinal scaled variable.