a raido show host asked people to call in and wheater they support new legislation to promote cleaner sources of energy. based on this sample, she constructed a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of all listners to her show who support the legislation. is the confidence interval to likely to give a good estimated of the proportion of her listners who support the legiislation?

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As long as the estimate is only generalized to her listeners, rather than trying to generalize to the population as a whole, it would be a good estimate.

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a raido show host asked people to call in and wheater they support new legislation to promote cleaner sources of energy. based on this sample, she constructed a confidence interval to estimate the proportion of all listners to her show who support the legislation. is the confidence interval to likely to give a good estimated of the proportion of her listners who support the legiislation?

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As long as the estimate is only generalized to her listeners, rather than trying to generalize to the population as a whole, it would be a good estimate.

PsyDAG · Answer

As long as the estimate is only generalized to her listeners, rather than trying to generalize to the population as a whole, it would be a good estimate.