In the United States, based on the responses of a random sample to a survey, between 70% and 80% of the people who do the family grocery shopping are women. This is
a. not a finding which can be generalized.
b. a biased estimate.
c. a confidence interval estimate.
d. sexism at its most offensive.
ANSWER: c
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