Craft and StructureHardApplying a principle to a specific case
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A survey's headline figure means little, statistician Hana Vogel cautions, unless you know who was asked and how they were chosen.
Text 2
A newspaper reports that 80% of the public opposes the new cycle lane, based on responses to a poll on the newspaper's own website.
Based on the texts, how would Vogel most likely respond to the newspaper's report?
- A. By pointing out that people who choose to answer a website poll are not a representative sample of the public.Correct
- B. By agreeing that 80% of the public opposes the lane.
- C. By arguing that cycle lanes are unpopular.
- D. By claiming the newspaper invented the figure.
Answer: A. By pointing out that people who choose to answer a website poll are not a representative sample of the public.
Vogel's caution about who was asked and how: a self-selected website poll fails it.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that 80% of the public opposes the lane.
- Vogel's principle argues against taking the figure at face value.
- C. By arguing that cycle lanes are unpopular.
- Not implied.
- D. By claiming the newspaper invented the figure.
- Not implied.
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