Using a term like "mob" rather than "crowd" in designing a poll question would be most likely to ______.
A. encourage respondents to answer the question
B. bias the results of the survey
C. increase the survey's margin of error
D. increase the randomness of the sample
Ans: B. bias the results of the survey
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