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Determine whether the following is an example of a sampling error or a non sampling error. A psychiatrist surveyed 8000 people to see the proportion who had seen a psychiatrist at least once in their lives. Unfortunately, there was confusion amongst the respondents about the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist and the recorded proportion was higher than it should have been due to this confusion.

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Answer:

The correct answer is - Non sampling error

Step-by-step explanation:

Sampling errors arises when a sample does not represent the whole population.

It is  difference between the real values of the population and the values derived by using samples from the population.

A non-sampling error refers to an error that occurs during data collection, causing the data to differ from the true values.

Non sampling error are of two types , response error and non response error.

In the given question , the error is a response error.

So , it is an example of Non-Sampling error.

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