Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Identify whether the following data set is a
population or a sample.
| A study about the age of runners is being conducted on the contestants in a
marathon of over 200 runners. The researcher collects data only from the first 15 runners and
last 15 runners to finish the marathon. |  | | |
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Identify the following data
set:
....the rates at which all of the cashiers scan products
for a store on a study about the cashiers for the day at that store. | | | |
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A traffic cop was
stopping every 5th car to check for insurance and license. What type of sampling
method is the cop using?
a. | Simple Random Sampling | c. | Systematic Sampling | b. | Stratified Sampling | d. | Convenience
Sampling |
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| A major university decides to survey
the student body to find out their opinion about campus life. All students are grouped by their
majors. The university randomly chooses all of the students that are business majors, mathematics
majors, journalist majors, and education majors for the sample. What type of sample did they
use? |  | | |
a. | Random | c. | Cluster | b. | Stratified | d. | Convenience |
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Which would be considered Quantitative data?
a. | List of television stations by call letters | b. | List of candy bar
names | c. | List of temperatures for different cities in one state. | d. | List of types of
soft drinks |
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The list of movies that will open this Friday is considered what kind of
data?
a. | Qualitative | b. | Quantitative | c. | Neither |
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You want to know the effect of a poisonous gas on human brain function. Which
method of data collection should you use?
a. | Perform an Experiment | c. | Take a Census | b. | Use a Simulation | d. | Use a Sampling |
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| You want to know if a chiropractor
or an acupuncture treatment actually improves blood pressure. Which method of data collection should
you use? | | | |
a. | Perform an Experiment | c. | Take a Census | b. | Use a Simulation | d. | Use a Sampling |
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Which survey question is biased?
a. | Do you think your diet influences your health? | b. | How many hours of
sleep do you get? | c. | Does the media impact
politics? | d. | Why are teen drivers dangerous? |
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A researcher believes that eating
all organic foods will improve blood pressure. So, the researcher study groups as their diet is
altered.
How would you describe the change in blood pressure? | | | |
a. | Independent Variable
(Treatment Variable) | c. | Confounding
Variable | b. | Dependent Variable
(Variable of Interest) |
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| A person is studying a new headache
medicine that has been deemed safe for human trials. The researcher offers the new medicine to
people suffering from headaches at several local hospitals. The researcher has decided to use a
blind study and form 2 sample groups. He gives patients in Group ‘A’ the actual
real experimental medicine. He gives patients in Group ‘B’ a fake treatment that is
nothing more than a sugar pill that looks like the real medicine. | | | |
How would you describe
Group ‘A’?a. | Control Group | b. | Placebo Group | c. | Treatment
Group | d. | Regular Group |
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Which type of study best describes the following research most likely to be
done? | A researcher is testing new
joint pain medicine. The researcher creates two sets of bottles to use with participants.
Half of the bottles contain a placebo and half contain the actual medicine. The medicine is
distributed to patients that are willing to be participants at one hospital. The researcher
keeps track of which medicine each participant is using but the participant doesn’t know if
they are taking the placebo or the actual medicine. | | |
a. | Blind Study | c. | Open Study | b. | Double Blind
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