What data collecting method was used? Mike works for the U.S. government and needs to take a sample of people in the U.S.  He has a computer randomly select social security numbers and then collects data from each person whose social security number was picked. 

Determine if the following data is categorical or quantitative? The number of ounces of liquid various coffee mugs can hold.

Match the type of bias to the description below. Falsifying reports, deleting data values, or refusing to get data from certain groups in the population. 

Match the term to the following definition. A fake medicine or fake treatment.

For the following example, select the type of bias that is being described in the data. (There is only one correct answer.) A politician wants to know what percent of people in her state agree with her opinion on health care reform. She hires a statistics company to take a random sample of individual people in her state and collect data. She tells the company to ask the following question: “Would you be willing to vote for my health care plan?” When she received the data, she found that many people refused to answer at all.

Match the term to the following definition. The dependent variable.  In an experiment proving cause and effect, this the variable that measures the effect.

Determine whether this study proves cause and effect. A group of scientists want to determine if age is related to getting Covid-19.  They collect a random sample of data from people across the world recording their age and how many times they have had Covid-19?Statistical analysis indicated that there is a strong correlation between age and the number of times a person has had covid-19. 

Determine if the following data is categorical or quantitative? Various college athletes were asked their favorite type of protein supplement.

Elevation of all of the following lab values is seen in renal failure EXCEPT _____.

Children with intussusception may exhibit all the following clinical presentations except: