Question

a school principal has an extra $1000 to contribute to school initiatives. she pols three sports teams in person to see what they feel should be done with the money. identify the two main types of bias present here.

Answer 1

Answer:

Given that:

A school principal has an extra $1000 to contribute to school initiatives. she pols three sports teams in person to see what they feel should be done with the money. identify the two main types of bias present here.

Here the two types of bias present are:

1) Selection Bias:

Since the polls are taken from sports teams there are high chances that the money will be invested in sports,thus the sample used for decision is not a good rejection of the population.Hence selection bias

2) Confirmation bias:

Here the principal in biased towards sports and therefore she has selected sports teams for the polls,thus the person performing the analysis wants to prove a predetermined assumption.Hence confirmation bias