Description
Progress Check
Use this activity to assess whether you and your peers can:
- Use a given margin of error to find and interpret the 95% confidence interval.
Learn by Doing
Use the rubric at the bottom of this page as a guide for completing this assignment.
Directions
Submit your work:
- Carefully read all sections below (beginning with the Context section and ending with the Prompt section).
- Commit a good-faith effort to address all items in the Prompt section below. Please be sure to number your responses.
Complete your assigned peer reviews:
- After you submit your initial good-faith attempt, continue to the ANSWER(S) page and review your instructor’s response. But please do not submit your corrected work yet.
- Within three days after the due date, return to this assignment and complete your assigned peer reviews (directions (Links to an external site.)).
Submit your corrected work:
- We all learn from mistakes (our own and our classmates’ mistakes). So please do not immediately correct your own mistakes. If possible, wait until you receive feedback from at least one of your peers.
- If necessary, correct your work and resubmit the entire assignment. Your instructor will only review and grade your most recent submission, so please do not refer to a previous submission.
Context
A Gallup poll conducted in November of 2011 asked the following question, What would you say is the most urgent health problem facing this country at the present time? The choices were access, cost, obesity, cancer, government interference, or the flu. The responses were access (27%), cost (20%), obesity (14%), cancer (13%), government interference (3%), or the flu (less than 0.5%).
The following is an excerpt from the Survey Methods section. Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Nov. 3-6, 2011, with a random sample of 1,012 adults ages 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on a total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Prompt
If we accept the maximum margin of sampling error provided above, find a 95% confidence interval to estimate the percentage of U.S. adults who feel that access to healthcare is the most urgent health problem facing this country. Interpret your interval in context.
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Rubric
Peer Reviewed Assignment
Criteria | Ratings | Pts | |||
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAddressing the Prompt |
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8 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIndividual Penalty |
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0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePeer Reviews |
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2 pts |
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Total Points: 10 |