Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys: Crash Course Statistics #10

Today we’re going to talk about good and bad surveys. From user feedback surveys, telephone polls, and those questionnaires at your doctor’s office, surveys are everywhere, but with their ease to create and distribute, they’re also susceptible to bias and error. So today we’re going to talk about how to identify good and bad survey questions, and how groups (or samples) are selected to represent the entire population since it’s often just not feasible to ask everyone.