The intent of push polls is to:
A) back the winning candidate.
B) identify voters with fake voter's registration.
C) estimate the voter turnout after weighting the responses to the poll.
D) drive voters away from one candidate and toward another.
E) provide adequate information to the voters about the upcoming elections.
Question -2-Which of the following statements is true of a house effect?
A) Polling firms with a house effect are always right.
B) All polling firms face the house effect during elections.
C) A firm with a house effect is not always wrong.
D) Polling firms that exhibit a house effect miss out on important points unlike its competitors.
E) Polling firms with a house effect are disqualified from voting in elections.
Question -3-A__________is a nonscientific poll in which there is no way to ensure that the opinions expressed are representative of the larger population being polled.
A) decision poll
B) statistical poll
C) straw poll
D) model poll
E) telephone poll
Question -4-In a polling survey, people are asked, How would you rate the epic movie Titanic? In this case, which of the following issues associated with a polling survey is most likely to affect the results?
A) The issue of framing misleading questions
B) The house effect
C) The issue of inadequate information in questions
D) The issue of weighting
E) The biased sampling error
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