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The school's newspaper has asked you to contact 100 of the approximately 1100 students at the school to gather information about student opinions regarding food at your school's cafeteria. (c) You decide to conduct a survey about the quality of food served in the school cafeteria by randomly selecting students as they leave the cafeteria after lunch on a specific day next week. Describe a source of bias that may result from using this method. Be sure to use the correct terminology, and indicate the direction of the potential bias.

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Sampling bias

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Sampling bias is due to the mistaken manner of selection of the respondents for the survey when conducting market research or similar survey. The sampling bias error is said to have occurred when the sample selection procedure, methodology, or process focuses on part of the population with a particular attribute, rather than being a random sample. Such that a given subset of the of the population are selected for the survey, which results in a biased sample.

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