You want to know the opinions of homo-schooled students across America on whether they prefer to loarn at home versus at a publi
c school with other students. You obtain a list of all home-schooled students and mail a survey to a random sample of 7,500 students. Of those, 4,195 responded and 39% say they prefer to learn at home. Which of the following statements is true?
The results of this survey may be affected by nonresponse blas.
The results of this survey cannot be trusted because of convenience response bias.
O Bocauso random sampling is used, wo can fool confident that the porcont of all homo-schooled students who say they favor learning at home is close to 39%.
O Because more than half of those who were mailed the survey actually responded, va can feel fairly confident that the actual percentage of all home-schooled
students who prefer to learn at homo is close to 39%.
In this survey, the results can be trusted because more than half of the people responded which makes this sample to be representative.
<h3>What is nonresponse bias?</h3>
This occurs when most of the people who were intended to be surveyed do not respond, which causes the results to be biased as the sample does not represent the population.
<h3>Can the results of this survey be trusted?</h3>
Considering more than 50% answer it is likely the results can be trusted as the sample is still representative.
