Question

Statistics can be extremely valuable, but you must also make sure that the sample and questions are unbiased. Design a pair of questions that are related to the same healthcare issue: one that is unbiased and another that would result in a bias in one direction or the other.

Examples:

a. Do you think that the rate of type II diabetes diagnoses will increase over the next 10 years?
b. Given the large increase in childhood obesity in the United States, do you think that type II diabetes diagnoses will increase over the next 10 years?

Discuss why it is important to create a truly unbiased sample and survey questions.

Answer 1

Do you think the rate of death due to pandemic will rise over the next month?

Considering the increase in death rate due to pandemic over the last 2 months, there will be an increase over the next 4 months?

Explanation:

It is important to create a truly unbiased sample and survey questinos so that the results are authentic and can be generalized to represent a population.