Question

Working Lottery Winners. In a national poll taken on August 7-11, 2013, by Gallup, Inc., 1039 adults who were employed full or part time were asked the following question: " If you won 10 million dollars in the lottery, would you continue to work, or would you stop working? "Sixty-eight percent of the respondents said that they would continue to work.

(a) Is this study descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.

(b) The title of the article discussing the survey was " In U.S., Most Would Still Work Even if They Won Millions. " Is the statement in quotes here descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.

Short answer

Part (a) The given study is descriptive.

Part (b) The given study is inferential.

Step-by-step solution

Part (a) Step 1. Given information.

The given statement is:

In a national poll taken on August 7-11, 2013, by Gallup, Inc., 1039 adults who were employed full or part-time were asked the following question: " If you won 10 million dollars in the lottery, would you continue to work, or would you stop working? "Sixty-eight percent of the respondents said that they would continue to work.

Part (a) Step 2. Classify the given study as either descriptive or inferential.

It is given in the study, it was asked 1039 adults who were employed full or part-time that if they won 10 million dollars in the lottery, would they still continue to work, or would they stop working right away.

The result is that Sixty-eight percent of the respondents voted that they would continue to work even if they won 10 million dollars in the lottery.

To put it another way, the given information is have been summarised.

As a result, we can classify the given study as descriptive.

Part (b) Step 1. Determine if the given statement is descriptive or inferential "In U.S., Most Would Still Work Even if They Won Millions."

Inferential statistics are statistics that are used to draw conclusions about a population based on a sample of that population.

In the given study the estimate is made based on a sampling of all people in the United States.

As a result, the research is based on inferential statistics.