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The response to the President's state-of-the-nation address was overwhelmingly positive. The White House switchboard received 1532 calls supporting his views and only 122 that were opposed.

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The levels of significance for calls in response to state are determined. The situation and results are commented on.

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Since people have to call in to the switchboard, it is not a random sample of individuals. People how are more prone to call will call, while those who would never call did not. This causes our sample to be bias. To make generalized statements that can be used to make decisions, you need to be dealing with a large, random sample of people.

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