SAT Math· difficulty 4/5
A poll on a sports website asks visitors which team will win the championship. The results are most likely:
Free from bias because sample is large
Representative of the general population
Representative of all sports fans
Biased due to non-random self-selected sampling
Explanation
Self-selected online polls have selection bias and are not representative of the broader population.
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