Lesson 1a.02

1a.02 Know the constraints that may be faced in designing an investigation to test a... Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Statistics, Unit 1

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  1. Which factor is a common practical constraint in statistical investigations?

    • Sample mean
    • Data variance
    • Chart scale
    • Time available

  2. Asking for personal details without participant agreement violates what?

    • Class width
    • Sampling frame
    • Ethical guidelines
    • Data accuracy

  3. Which constraint relates to keeping participants' answers private?

    • Confidentiality
    • Convenience
    • Time
    • Costs

  4. Which difficulty represents a constraint in obtaining salary figures?

    • Too much time
    • High accuracy
    • Finding data
    • Simple formatting

  5. Which constraint is most closely linked to whether people can take part at a particular time or place?

    • Confidentiality
    • Costs
    • Convenience
    • Ethical issues

  6. A student has a fixed budget of £20 for a survey. Which constraint does this illustrate?

    • Time
    • Costs
    • Confidentiality
    • Ethical issues

  7. A school needs its survey results within two weeks. Which constraint is this?

    • Convenience
    • Confidentiality
    • Time
    • Ethical issues

  8. A salary survey is planned but employers refuse to share pay details. Which constraint applies?

    • Graph scale
    • Finding data
    • Sample size
    • Average wage

  9. Choosing an easy-to-reach sample helps overcome which constraints?

    • Accuracy and range
    • Ethics and privacy
    • Time and cost
    • Bias and error

  10. A study of under-16s' phone use needs parental permission before asking questions. Which constraint is this?

    • Ethical issues
    • Convenience
    • Costs
    • Time

  11. A researcher has £500 but needs 2,000 responses. Which constraint is most limiting?

    • Confidentiality
    • Convenience
    • Costs
    • Ethical issues

  12. Which constraints are most important when surveying household incomes?

    • Confidentiality and ethics
    • Colour and font
    • Speed and paper
    • Width and height

  13. Surveying night shift workers is mainly affected by which constraint?

    • Secondary bias
    • Convenience
    • Data cleaning
    • Class interval

  14. How should a researcher best handle a strict time limit?

    • Reduce scope
    • Guess values
    • Ignore outliers
    • Stop analysis

  15. A survey on sensitive health issues must primarily address which two constraints?

    • Ethics and confidentiality
    • Time and location
    • Scale and format
    • Cost and travel

  16. A distant field study with a small budget is limited by which constraints?

    • Ethics and privacy
    • Mean and range
    • Discrete data
    • Costs and convenience

  17. Which factor is a common constraint when designing a statistical investigation?

    • Median
    • Hypothesis
    • Average
    • Cost

  18. Which option is a direct response to a strict budget constraint?

    • Cheaper source
    • Longer survey
    • Census method
    • Larger sample

  19. Which practical factors should guide the choice of survey length?

    • Axis and scale
    • Mean and mode
    • Time and cost
    • Hypothesis and test

  20. What difficulty arises when studying a rare target group?

    • Simple coding
    • Finding population
    • High accuracy
    • Low variance

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