Question

in an october 2018 gallup poll on the death penalty, the pollster split the random sample of 1020 adults at random, asking 510 respondents, \generally speaking, do you believe the death penalty is applied unfairly or fairly in this country today?\ the other 510 were asked, \generally speaking, do you believe the death penalty is applied fairly or unfairly in this country today?\ seems like the same question, but sometimes the order of the choices matters. suppose that for the original question, 52.6% thought the death penalty was fairly applied, but that second way of phrasing it, 63.9% said they thought the death penalty was fairly applied. complete parts a through c below.
a) what kind of bias may be present here?
response bias
voluntary response bias
nonresponse bias
a bias arising from convenience sampling

Explanation:

This bias occurs when the wording or order of survey questions influences respondents' answers. Here, reversing the order of "fairly" and "unfairly" in the question led to different response rates, which matches the definition of response bias.

Answer:

A. Response bias