Question

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A press release of a pre-election survey in 2016 with the headline “Clinton leads Trump in final NH poll, senate race tight,” had the following description of the sampling design: “These findings are based on the latest Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Seven hundred and seven (707) randomly selected New Hampshire likely voters were interviewed by landline and cellular telephone between November 3 and November 6, 2016.” Which of the following issues would you be least concerned with when evaluating this poll:

Undercoverage

Nonresponse

Lack of realism

Answer 1

Solution:

A press release of a pre-election survey in 2016 with the headline “Clinton leads Trump in final NH poll, senate race tight,” had the following description of the sampling design: “These findings are based on the latest Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Seven hundred and seven (707) randomly selected New Hampshire likely voters were interviewed by landline and cellular telephone between November 3 and November 6, 2016.”

In this poll, we would be the least concern with " Nonresponse", because of the randomly selected voters were interviewed by landline and cellular telephone. Here the all the randomly selected voters will respond and there will be no issue with "Nonresponse".