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A school administrator selects every 20th person on the list of names alphabetically to see what the favorite school subject is. Is this biased?

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Yes is it biased. A percentage needs to be done or something rather than random picking.

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no it is not cause it is still randomly choosing people cause if one person is missing it can go to the next person

Eden Moshe answered Oct 27, 2018

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