Multiple Choice
The sports section of the East Mule Shoe Gazette runs a weekly question that readers can answer online. After the local university's football squad was beaten by its rival for the forty-second straight season, the question was "Do you think that the coach needs to go?" Of the 182 people who responded, 89 percent said Yes.
When people say that the newspaper poll is biased, they mean that:
A) repeated polls would miss the truth about the population in the same direction.
B) the question asked shows a preference on a gender or racial basis.
C) repeated polls would give results that are very different from each other.
D) students may have a different opinion from townspeople.
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