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Television stations sometimes solicit feedback volunteered by viewers about a tele-vised event. Following a televised debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election campaign, a TV station conducted a telephone poll to determine the "winner." Callers were given two phone numbers, one for Obama and the other for Romney, to register their opinions automatically.(a) Comment on whether or not this was a random sample. (b) How might this poll have been improved?

          Television stations sometimes solicit feedback volunteered by viewers about a tele-vised event. Following a televised debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election campaign, a TV station conducted a telephone poll to determine the "winner." Callers were given two phone numbers, one for Obama and the other for Romney, to register their opinions automatically.(a) Comment on whether or not this was a random sample. (b) How might this poll have been improved?
        
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Television stations sometimes solicit feedback volunteered by viewers about a tele-vised event. Following a televised debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election campaign, a TV station conducted a telephone poll to determine the "winner." Callers were given two phone numbers, one for Obama and the other for Romney, to register their opinions automatically.(a) Comment on whether or not this was a random sample. (b) How might this poll have been improved?
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00:01 Okay, so we were told about this television station that basically asked who won a televised debate, mitt romney, or barack obama.
00:13 And they gave like a telephone number for each one, right? and told people to call in and say which one.
00:24 And like, yeah, you would call whichever one that you thought that they, that would...
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