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You recently purchased the wrong computer video or graphics card. It was not until you received the overnight package, ripped open the box, and installed the card that you realized it conflicts with another peripheral in your system. Do you tell the mail-order company:

You bill for services you provide on an hourly basis and you do good work. But you can’t turn a decent profit: To raise your rates, do you:

Measurement (response) bias could result from which of the following? I) An improperly calibrated assessment tool used to weigh survey responses II) A survey that includes leading questions III) Appearance or behavior of the person asking the survey questions

You’re interested in learning about the typical body weight of residents in the small town where you live.  The town has only 200 residents.  You send out a questionnaire to all 200 residents asking them for their body weight in kilograms.  All 200 residents reply with the requested data.  You use the data supplied by all 200 residents to determine the typical body weight of your town’s residents.  Which of the following accurately describes the typical body weight you just determined?

You’re a veterinarian interested in the effect of brisk, daily walks on the health of large dogs. You take a survey of 100 dog owners and find that dogs taken for one or more brisk walks each day become ill less frequently. Which of the following describes this finding?

You are gathering data on the sales of packaged hard candies sold in a hotel gift shop.  Your variables of interest include: I) The type of container in which the candies are packaged (glass jar, cardboard box, or plastic bag) II) The weight of the container III) The number of candies in the container IV) The height above the floor at which the candy-filled container was displayed Which of the variables of interest are numerical and discrete?

You’re planning a study in which the person measuring the response should be aware of the assigned treatment, but the subject should not. Which of the following experiments should be used?

Suppose you want to know the effect of vitamin C supplementation on the frequency and severity of seasonal colds for students living in dormitories on a particular large university campus. You use a computerized survey which is presented randomly to 50 of the 1000 dormitory residents when they log onto their computers each day. All dormitory residents have computers and all of them log onto their computers daily. Is your sample likely to be representative of the population of interest?