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Determine whether each survey question is biased or unbiased. If biased, explain your reasoning. Do you prefer watching exciting football games or sitting through choir recitals?

1. biased; the question addresses more than one issue.
2. biased; the question encourages a certain response.
3. unbiased biased; the question causes a strong reaction.

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Answer: 2. biased; the question encourages a certain response.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is biased because it already makes assumptions of the two activities.

It labels football games as EXCITING whilst asking if one would 'SIT THROUGH' choir recitals which is a way of saying that the choir recitals are BORING.

This question therefore elicits a certain response as most people would go with the Exciting activity so as not to be seen as boring people who would go to choir recitals.

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