Answer
Positive direction.
Work Step by Step
Women are more likely to support the bill than men. Thus their sample proportion is more likely to be higher. Thus the bias would be in the positive direction.
The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition
by Moore, David S.; Notz, William I.; Fligner, Michael A.
Published by
W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10:
146414253X
ISBN 13:
978-1-46414-253-6
Chapter 22 - Inference about a Population Proportion - Chapter 22 Exercises - Page 534: 22.28b
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