(04.04 MC)”Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portio…
(04.04 MC)”Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portion of the electorate, not uncommonly something on the order of a couple of thousand people out of the more than two hundred million Americans who are eligible to vote. The promise of this work is that the sample is exquisitely representative. But the lower the response rate the harder and more expensive it becomes to realize that promise, which requires…calling many more people….Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal has recalled how, in the nineteen-eighties, when the response rate at the firm where he was working had fallen to about sixty percent, people in his office said, “What will happen when it’s only twenty? We won’t be able to be in business!” A typical response rate is now in the single digits.”—From Stefaan Verhulst in GovLab Digest, 2015Which polling error is highlighted in this passage?
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(01.07 MC)City residents are asked to vote directly on a proposed sales tax increase to fund public transportation improvements through a ballot measure where voters simply mark yes or no.Which form of representative democracy does this scenario reflect?
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