If a presidential candidate concludes from a poll conducted in Minnesota that he is ahead in the race and that from those results that he will win the election nationwide, then the candidate is guilty of _____________.
A) experimenter bias
B) sample bias
C) the placebo effect
D) the lack of adequate controls

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The candidate is guilty of sample bias because he is generalizing results from a specific sample (Minnesota) to the entire population (nationwide), which may not be representative.

If a Presidential Candidate Concludes from a Poll Conducted in Minnesota