275,487 views
31 votes
31 votes
a surveyor wants to conduct a poll to see how many people in a town prefer to shop online versus at the local mall. which polling method is likely to be biased?

a surveyor wants to conduct a poll to see how many people in a town prefer to shop-example-1
User Benske
by
2.8k points

1 Answer

17 votes
17 votes

We can clearly see that polling every other person that exits the mall is the biased method,since the poll is about to find out if the people prefer to shop online or at the local mall. The responses of the poll would be subjective towards the mall and the sample would not be random

User PlushyObject
by
2.5k points