Answer to Question #308162 in Statistics and Probability for Anita

Question

(a) Give one example of why the population the “entire college campus” is ambiguous. That is, what is at least one questionable aspect of this definition of the population?

Answer 1

The “entire college campus” population is ambiguous since it does not specify the type of population to be studied and the specific information about the population been studied.

The “entire college campus” population includes the different types of students, teaching staff and even the non teaching staff that all have different characteristics.