Problem 1
- Test level
- Multiple choice
- No calculator
- 4 pts
Five volunteers each submit one daily comfort rating on each of four days, with no missing records. A report calls these 20 records a sample of 20 different people. Which correction is justified?
Answer
There are 20 person-day records from five distinct volunteers; recording more days does not create additional people.
Full solution
The number of records is , but every set of four records belongs to one volunteer.
If the target concerns distinct volunteers, the participant count remains five. A person-day can be a legitimate record unit if named explicitly.
Calling the rows 20 different people changes the observational unit and exaggerates the number of participants.
Where students lose points
Name repeated-measurement units explicitly rather than assuming every row is a different person.

