An antigun advocate wants to estimate the percentage of people who favor stricter gun laws. He conducts a nationwide survey of 1 comma 203 randomly selected adults 18 years old and older. He conducts a nationwide survey of 1,203 randomly selected adults 18 years old and older. The interviewer asks the respondents, "Do you favor harsher penalties for individuals who sell guns illegally?" This survey has bias. (a) What is the type of bias? A. Sampling biasB. Response biasC. Nonresponse bias (b) What is a possible remedy? A. Use systematic random samplingB. Conduct face-to-face or telephone interviews. C. Reword the question

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Agustin Lawson

5 October, 19:53

An antigun advocate wants to estimate the percentage of people who favor stricter gun laws. He conducts a nationwide survey of 1 comma 203 randomly selected adults 18 years old and older. He conducts a nationwide survey of 1,203 randomly selected adults 18 years old and older. The interviewer asks the respondents, "Do you favor harsher penalties for individuals who sell guns illegally?" This survey has bias. (a) What is the type of bias? A. Sampling biasB. Response biasC. Nonresponse bias (b) What is a possible remedy? A. Use systematic random samplingB. Conduct face-to-face or telephone interviews. C. Reword the question

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(a) B. Response bias

(b) C. Reword the question

Step-by-step explanation:

The Survey has response bias, because the survey question doesn't reflect the aim of the survey.

The purpose of the survey is to estimate the percentage of people who favor stricter gun laws.

Responses to "Do you favor harsher penalties for individuals who sell guns illegally?" question does not cover people's thoughts about legal gun trade, which may also concerned by the stricter gun laws.

Remedy to this can be to restate the question so that the aim can be addressed.