Question

A cable company took a random sample of its subscribers to get their opinion on a new television series. Based on the results of this survey, they made the following claim:"Ninety percent of all television viewers agree, this new series is a hit!"Explain why this claim is misleading.a. This percentage of viewers is not enough to make the series a hit.b. The company only surveyed its viewers but made the claim about all viewers.c. The company did not use a random sample of their subscribers.d. The survey was conducted during the day when most television viewers are at work.

Answer 1

For this case we have the following statement:

"Ninety percent of all television viewers agree, this new series is a hit!"

We need to explain why this claim is misleading so then we can see that the best answer is:

b. The company only surveyed its viewers but made the claim about all viewers.

and the reason is because sin the data was collected just for the subscribers then it could be bias in these results