Math  /  Data & Statistics

QuestionA reporter for a local television station visits the city's new upscale shopping mall the day before Christmas to interview shoppers. He questions the first 25 shoppers he meets outside one of department stores at the mall. He asks them whether their overall feelings about Christmas shopping are positive, neutral, or negative.
Select the reason(s) why it may be risky to act as if the first 25 shoppers at this particular location are an SRS of all shoppers in the city. Surveying shoppers at the mall the day after Christmas may not be a good represenation of all shoppers in the city. Shoppers at the mall the day before Christmas does not guarantee every shopper in the population has an equal chance to be in the sample. Surveying shoppers the day before Christmas is a convenience sample, so it is a simple random sample. Having the reporter ask questions is not a double-blind study.

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Surveying shoppers at this specific upscale mall the day before Christmas is not representative of all shoppers in the city due to **location bias** and **timing bias**.
Additionally, using a **convenience sample** of the first 25 shoppers encountered does not fulfill the requirements of a **simple random sample**, introducing **sampling method bias**.

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