Using survey data to calculate statistics can be extremely
valuable, but you must also make sure that the sample and questions
are unbiased. Design a pair of questions that are related to the
same healthcare issue: one that is unbiased and another that would
result in a bias in one direction or the other. Examples: Do you
think that the rate of type II diabetes diagnoses will increase
over the next 10 years? Given the large increase in childhood
obesity in the United States, do you think that type II diabetes
diagnoses will increase over the next 10 years? Discuss why it is
important to create a truly unbiased sample and survey questions.
Then, look at your classmates' examples and comment on how their
examples do or do not create a bias.
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