Oak City has 10,325 registered voters. A political research assistant randomly selects 100 voters to predict the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election. He determines from the data that 53 participants will be voting for the incumbent President. 28 voters will be voting for a relatively unknown candidate, and 19 voters are undecided. Why are the results likely to be erroneous?

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Cannon Keller

10 February, 14:09

Oak City has 10,325 registered voters. A political research assistant randomly selects 100 voters to predict the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election. He determines from the data that 53 participants will be voting for the incumbent President. 28 voters will be voting for a relatively unknown candidate, and 19 voters are undecided. Why are the results likely to be erroneous?

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Keenan Brooks · Answer 1

Because he has no prior knowledge to base his hypothesis that that specific number of people will be voting for that specific candidate, therefore the results may be drastically different than his prediction

Jack Duran · Answer 2

Since you didn't include the answers (that was erroneous) but i have this problem and i got it wrong! and i got the answers.

Answer: D