Question

Morisha is a policy researcher who studies parents' interest in charter schools. As part of her work she conducted extended interviews with parents who wanted to enter their children into charter schools for high school. While conducting her interviews, she noticed one family whose reasons were so unlike the others that she wondered whether she should even include the data in her sample. Your best advice to her would be to:

Select one:
a. collect more data because this family probably isn't unique.
b. exclude the data because the family is such an extreme outlier; maybe they weren't really honest.
c. keep the data, and make sure her analysis plan accounts for a broad range of responses.
d. review the interview questions to see if they're biased in some way.

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is "a. collect more data because this family probably isn't unique.".

Explanation: Your best advice to her would be to: collect more data because this family probably isn't unique.

Morisha should gather more information because generally she should find another family as particular as this one, and in that case along with all the data collected make sure to take into account a wide range of responses that are representative of the parents' interest in charter schools.