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We Want to Know the Mean Winning Score at the US

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We want to know the mean winning score at the US Open golf championship. An internet search
Gives us all the scores for the history of that tournament, and we create a 95% confidence interval
Based on a t-distribution. This procedure was not appropriate. Why?


A) The population standard deviation is known, so we should have used a z-model.
B) The entire population of scores was gathered so there is no reason to do inference.
C) In big golf tournaments the players are not randomly selected.
D) The recent record-setting score is probably an outlier.
E) Since these are the best players in the world, the scores are probably skewed.

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