A magazine ran a survey about a web site for downloading music. Readers could register their responses on the​ magazine's web site. Identify what is wrong.

Question

statistics, what can go wrong with the survey

Answer 1

Hey Camille!

The issue with this survey in hand is that the survey is voluntary, meaning that responses that are recorded for this survey are self-selected. This does lead to voluntary response bias, which can be an issue as it won't necessarily create results that will represent the population. This is because you cannot guarantee that everyone will take this survey, meaning that there is a great chance a good amount of data will get left out. Hopefully this helps. Feel free to ask me any more questions if you need!