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2. In the 1936 US presidential election polls, the Literary Digest held a poll that forecast that Alfred E. Landon would defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 57% to 43%. They had used lists of telephone and automobile owners to select their sample. George Gallup, using a much smaller sample (300,01 rather than 2,000,000) , predicted Roosevelt would win, and he was right. What went wrong with the Literary Digest poll?

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We can infer that the Literary Digest poll was wrong because it was biased.

We are told that the poll used lists of telephone and automobile owners to select their sample which doesn't give a full representation of all those who will vote in the election.

So we can infer that the problem with the Literary Digest poll is that it was Biased

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