Question

the student council at mountain view high school plans to conduct a survey to determine the student body's opinion of the new lunch menu. which of the following sampling methods would be most likely to result in self-selection bias?

A. obtaining an alphabetical list of all students and surveying every 10th student

B. setting up a booth in the lunchroom where students can give theirthoughts

C. handing out a questionnaire to students leaving campus at lunchtime

D. handing out a questionnaire to seniors only

Answer 1

The sampling method that would be most likely to result in self-selection bias is given by:

D. handing out a questionnaire to seniors only

What is sampling?

It is a common statistics practice, when we want to study something from a population, we find a sample of this population, which is a group containing elements of a population. A sample has to be representative of the population, that is, it has to involve all segments of the population.

In this problem, in option D, only seniors are involved, that is, it does not involve all segements, hence it would be most likely to result in self-selection bias.

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