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A Magazine Poll of Unemployed Men in the U

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A magazine poll of unemployed men in the U.S. stated "22% of those polled suffer from clinical depression; the margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 6 percentage points." How would you
Interpret this statement? Assume that the margin of error is associated with a 95% confidence Interval.


A) The percentage of all unemployed men in the U.S. who suffer from clinical depression is 22%. The chance that this estimate is incorrect is 6%
B) There is a 95% chance that the percentage of all unemployed men in the U.S. who suffer from clinical depression is somewhere between 16% and 28%.
C) We can be 95% confident that the percentage of all unemployed men in the U.S. who suffer from clinical depression is somewhere between 16% and 28%.
D) A confidence interval for the percentage of all unemployed men in the U.S. who suffer from clinical depression is 17% to 27%. There is a 6% chance that this interval does not include the
Population proportion, p.

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