5 A researcher is trying to discover the average age at deat

5. A researcher is trying to discover the average age at death for people in the United States today. To obtain data, the obituary columns of The New York Times are read for 30 days, and the ages at death of people in the United States are noted. Do you think this approach will lead to a representative sample?

Solution

no it does not leads to a representative of sample because everyone does not give obituary columns because they have to pay for some people it may not be possible so we have to collect the data from other sources like from hospitals or govt offices etc. Based on a THE NEWYORK Times we cannot get a perfect sample and it may not be a correct representative and we cannot cover all the people who died in that month ages also some may some may not give.