Question

In a poll of students at the basketball championship. 82% of the students say that basketball is better than football .

(a) Explain why it is not a valid conclusion to say that basketball is more popular than football at the school?

(b) Suggest a better method of determining which sport is more popular.

Answer:

Answer 1

A. Because the conducted the survey at a basketball championship so naturally the people there will like basketball.
B. You could ask every 10th student at a school which sport is better. 

Answer 2

Part (a):  Because the survey was held at basketball championship.

Part (b): The survey among students should held at school or in any common place.

What is survey analysis?

Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography. Survey research is often used to assess thoughts, opinions and feelings. Surveys can be specific and limited, or they can have more global, widespread goals.

For the given situation,

A survey was held at basketball championship. On the survey, 82% of the students say that basketball is better than football.

Part (a):

This is not a valid conclusion. Because, the survey was held at basketball championship. The students who like basketball only come to basketball championship. So maximum number of students would say that basketball is better than football.

Part(b):

Suggestion for better method of determining which sport is more popular.

The survey among students should held at school or in any common place not at basketball championship. If survey held at school, many various options would come. So this could be the better method.

Hence we can conclude that

Part (a):  Because the survey was held at basketball championship.

Part (b): The survey among students should held at school or in any common place.

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