Question

Can the following question be considered a statistical question, and why? For how many hours does each student at Bryan Middle School sleep?

Yes, it specifies the population
No, it does not specify the population
Yes, it anticipates enough variability in responses
No, it does not anticipate enough variability in responses

Answer 1

Yes, it anticipates enough variability in responses

Explanation:

Answer 2

Yes, it anticipates enough variability in responses

Explanation:

The given question is

"How many hours does each student at Bryan Middle School sleep?"

This is an actual statistical question, because it's aimed to measure a variable: hours of sleep.

An important characteristic of a statistical question is that you get a range of answers, you have variability, which enables you to create distributions of that data set.

Therefore, the right answer is "Yes, it anticipates enough variability in responses".