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Imagine you are surveying a population of a mountain range where the inhabitants live in the valleys with no inhabitants on the large mountains between. If your sample area is the valleys, and you use this to estimate the population across the entire mountain range, will you overestimate or underestimate the actual population size?
a. need more information
b. overestimate
c. underestimate
d. neither

Respuesta :

Overestimate

By basing the population density estimate on a region with high density (i.e. valleys) you will end up overestimating population over entire mountain range because the sample density is not representative of the overall density of the mountain range.