Question

A Gallup poll sponsored by the disposable diaper industry asked, "It is estimated that disposable diapers account for less than 2% of the trash in today's landfills. In contrast, beverage containers, third-class mail and yard waste are estimated to account for about 21% of the trash in landfills. Given this, in your opinion, would it be fair to ban disposable diapers?" 84% responded no. (Data from EESEE.) Given the leading language of thequestion and the dramatic results from the participants, this poll likely suffers from- bias. Your answer

Answer 1

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The poll is conducted by disposable diaper company, and the results are presented in favor of disposable diapers, influencing the respondents to favor un-banning of the disposable diapers

This situation where the respondent was influenced by a biased information is called "response bias"

the bias is caused because the survey was not conducted by blinding the respondents about the poll results which favored the disposable diapers, hence this led to "response bias"