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Grade 12

Sources of Bias

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Interactive practice questions

"Do you want a soup for lunch or a sandwich?"

Is the question biased or fair?

Biased

A

Fair

B
Easy
< 1min

"What do you do on a Sunday morning?"

Easy
< 1min

Is the question "Do you like these shoes?" biased or fair?

Easy
< 1min

"Do you prefer this shirt or the one on the shelves at the moment?"

Easy
< 1min
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Outcomes

12C.D.1.2

Describe characteristics of an effective survey (e.g., by giving consideration to ethics, privacy, the need for honest responses, and possible sources of bias, including cultural bias), and design questionnaires (e.g., for determining if there is a relationship between age and hours per week of Internet use, between marks and hours of study, or between income and years of education) or experiments (e.g., growth of plants under different conditions) for gathering two-variable data

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