OCR S2 2009 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicModelling and Hypothesis Testing
TypeSampling methods critique

4 A survey is to be carried out to draw conclusions about the proportion \(p\) of residents of a town who support the building of a new supermarket. It is proposed to carry out the survey by interviewing a large number of people in the high street of the town, which attracts a large number of tourists.
  1. Give two different reasons why this proposed method is inappropriate.
  2. Suggest a good method of carrying out the survey.
  3. State two statistical properties of your survey method that would enable reliable conclusions about \(p\) to be drawn.