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3. Are the following polls accurate or misleading? Identify the good and bad polling techniques. (16 points)
a. "Eighty-nine percent of Americans like to eat hamburgers."
— poll taken of 300 people outside McDonald's at lunchtime
b. "Seventy-five percent of commuters are too busy to answer poll questions."
-poll taken of 500 people in front of the train station during rush hour
C. "Only two percent of Americans know whom Britney Spears married."
— poll taken of 65 residents at the Shady Rest Retirement Home
d. "Only 33 percent of those visiting the public library come to borrow books."
- poll taken of 1,000 people using the Philadelphia Free Library over a period of three weeks, at different
times of day

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