At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc., was asked to determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the US started collecting data immediately, calling people at their residences. One hour later, the attitudes from 10,000 Americans, across all 50 states, were collected. A staff member called the CEO, still at her lunch meeting, to tell her the results of the poll: America's favorite day of the week is Monday. Given your text's discussion of inductive reasoning in science, we might suspect that the observations in this poll are not representative because:

a. the participants were only asked one question for this poll.
b. the participants were not sufficiently geographically diverse.
c. the people who are home to answer the phone in the early afternoon arenot an appropriate cross-section of the U.S. population.
d. everyone in America was not asked their opinion.

The correct answer would be option C, the people who are home to answer the phone in the early afternoon are not appropriate cross section of the US population.

Explanation:

In the inductive reasoning, premises are viewed as supplying evidence of the truth of the conclusion. So in this example, the poll was to find out the favorite day of the week for the Americans and the employees called their homes, family and friends, and asked the questions from them and gathered the information. They called them during the early afternoon which means the people are not working and stay at home people, that is why they like Mondays, but generally people who go on work, don't like Mondays at all, they are more likely to favorite Friday as it begins the start of the weekend.