Question

The survey has bias.​ (a) determine the type of bias.​ (b) suggest a remedy. upper a pro dash military advocate wants to estimate the percentage of people who favor increasing funding for the military. she conducts a nationwide survey of 1450 randomly selected adults 18 years and older. the interviewer asks the​ respondents, ​"do you favor being patriotic by supporting our armed forces question mark ​" ​(a) which of these best describes the bias in the​ survey? sampling bias response bias your answer is correct. nonresponse bias undercoverage bias ​(b) how can the bias be​ remedied?
a. the interviewer should survey people under 18 as well.
b. the interviewer should survey a greater number of adults 18 and older.
c. the interviewer should survey people by phone and in person.
d. the interviewer should reword the question.

Answer 1

Answer:

B). Response bias

D). The interviewer should reword the question.

Explanation:

Response bias is described as the type of bias in which a variety of tendencies are displayed by the respondents to answer the questions asked in the survey inaccurately or misleadingly. These false responses eventually lead to a false or deceiving conclusion. In the given survey, 'response bias' is displayed as the respondents may display a tendency to answer the question falsely as the feeling of 'patriotism' evoked by the word 'patriotic' may prevent their original opinions to come out. Thus, option B is the correct answer to describe the bias in this survey.

In order to prevent this bias, the interviewer must 'reword the question' and remove the word 'patriotic' as it develops the feeling of patriotism in the respondents which mars them from answering accurately and share their true opinions or thoughts in the regards of 'supporting armed forces.' This rewording will help evoke the true and authentic responses without any bias. Thus, option D is the correct answer to remedy the bias.