The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 420: 18.4b

Answer

RESPONSE BIAS, because most women will not give their actual weight when asked for it. Since the sample contains response bias, we cannot trust the interval to be accurate.

Work Step by Step

Selection or undercoverage bias will exclude part of the population, measurement or response bias will use a method that gives different values from the true value and nonresponse bias is the results of not having data for everybody in the sample.
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