In this lab, you will relive those
fateful days of yesteryear! This lab contains a list of the votes and
demographic data of 60 "voters" that make up the population you'll be
sampling from. This population is meant to simulate that of the United
States in 1936. You are to take three different samples from this
population: a simple random sample, a stratified random sample and a
sample that mimics the Literary Digest sample survey.
The objective of this lab is to give you a practical understanding of
simple random sampling and stratified random sampling as well as to
demonstrate the advantages of stratified random sampling and show
where and how the Literary Digest went wrong in 1936.