ex0730: Sampling Bias in Exit Polls 2

In Sleuth3: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd Ed)"

Sampling Bias in Exit Polls 2

Description

These data are the average proportion of voters refusing to be interviewed by exit pollsters in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, grouped gby age of the interviewer, and the approximate age of the interviewer. What evidence do the data provide that the mean refusal rate decreased with incrasing age of interviewer?

Usage

ex0730

Format

A data frame with 6 observations on the following 2 variables.

Age

age of the exit poll interviewer, years

Refusal

average proportion of voters refusing to be interviewed

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.

References

Evaluation of Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 prepared by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for the National Election Pool (NEP), January 15, 2005. https://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/EvaluationofEdisonMitofskyElectionSystem.pdf

See Also

ex0729

Examples

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