Biased sample

A Biased Sample

A biased sample is a logical fallacy based on statistics. This happens when a group of people’s opinions are cut out and not included, or when the survey has been asked to a not so random population. The selection of the surveyed has been flawed, or purposefully flawed.
A syllogism is an argument that is proposed by two others, such as if no black rabbits are friendly, and there are no old rabbits, you would conclude that there are no black old friendly rabbits. This same thing can be brought into the biased sample. For example, if we were to have a bag full of marbles and out of the 100 marbles in the bag, 90 of them are green. If we were to pull a single marble out of the bag, it would be safe to assume that our marble would also be green.
Proportion Q of the sample has attribute A
Therefore Q of the population has A

As a whole the Biased sample does not have a Latin translation, but while looking I found that “sample” can be translated into Latin can be translated into exemplum, so it would then become Biased Exemplum, but as a whole there is not direct translation into Latin.
This would become a very useful tool when in a debate. By forming a survey and only asking a certain group of people to fill it out, you are able to control the outcome of the survey. This would become a valid piece of information, and proof towards the point that you are trying to make, even though this survey has not been sent to a full range of different people. It becomes your secret vantage point.

Examples of a biased sample would be:
Example 1: if you have asked all your friends at school that don’t drive where they want their prom to be, down town or close to where we live, and soon the results come in as the second option of closer to home. This is a bias sample because the whole student body wasn’t asked their opinion, only the ones that would need rides had been asked, and in turn has given an unfair survey.

Example 2: People that travel a lot were given a survey while flying to fill out about air transportation satisfaction; this will be a biased sample because we do not know the opinion of those who don’t fly. They may not fly because the flight is too turbulent and they don’t like that, or how they were treated poorly once and have never gone back, whole the people on the plane that travel often will most likely give a decent rating to the airline.

An example from popular child’s movie that many can relate to would be from beauty and the beast. As Belle leaves the castle to go and help her sick father, she has learnt that the beast has a kind and gentle soul, and all the appliances in the castle know this as well. But as Belle has returned to the town, the townsmen have all been convinced that the Beast is a terrible thing and must be destroyed before he hurts anyone. This becomes a biased sample because the townsmen do not take into consideration the opinion of everyone living in the castle or of Belle herself that has experienced What the Beast is like herself. They have cut a whole side of the opinion of the “survey” off, and in turn getting the results that they were looking for