Question

A study shows that, over the course of a lifetime, the average salary of college graduates is greater than the average salary of people with only a high school diploma. The results were published claiming that graduating from college ensures you will make more money over the course of your lifetime. What is the problem with reporting results this way?

loaded question


correlation and causality


voluntary response


missing data

Answer 1

The problem with reporting this result is:

Missing data.

Explanation:

The reason behind this answer is: first of all a loaded question has a bias, the question in our case is arbitrary because it doesn't suggest an inclination of perspective. The correlation between studies and salaries also is not wrong, it is well developed. Therefore, the casualty is well developed. There is no voluntary response because it was not a questionnaire that could have been manipulated. We could have obtained the data from the government database. However, that is what we are lacking. We have no statistics, no source, no institution mentioned, we have missing data.