A government's congress has 376 members, of which 44 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the membe

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A government's congress has 376 members, of which 44 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the membe

rs of congress as as a random sample of the human race. He reports to his superiors that a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of the human race that is female has a lower bound of 0.085 and an upper bound of 0.149. What is wrong with the alien's approach to estimating the proportion of the human race that is female?

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Alla [95] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-21T19:28:08+03:00

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Alien does not take the sample because alien choose the data of a Government's congress and congress contain less women.

On the other hand general population contain women greater than congress

So as compared to general population confidence interval is not representative.

A​ government's congress has 376 ​members, of which 44 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the membe

A government's congress has 376 members, of which 44 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the membe