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2 Types of data

TRUSTING CONCLUSIONS

TASK 1 Considering bias

People were surveyed as they left a supermarket.

List situations in which this would be an extremely biased sampling method and ones in which it
would not be as biased.
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TASK 2 ‘Random’ sample

To determine the average shoe size of Year 7 students, Andrew sorted the names of all the 213 Year 7
students alphabetically, assigning a number to each person according to their position on the list.
He then selected twenty students from the list by generating twenty random numbers from 1 to 213.
He noted their gender (M or F) and their shoe size.
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
M 9 M 8 M 10 M 8 M 8 M 8 M 9 M 8 M 9 M 9
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
1 1 1 1 1 1
M 10 M 8 F 6 M 8 M 8 M 8 F 5 M 8 M 11 M 7
2 2 2 2 2 2

Average shoe size for Year 7 is 8.075.

1 Did Andrew use a census or a sample? _______________________________________________

2 What type of data has been collected?

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3 Give your opinion on whether the sample was biased.

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4 What method could be used to make the results more reliable?

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TASK 3 A café’s claim

Discuss what you would need to know to

have confidence in this claim.

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