Question 21.19

21.19 Don’t forget the basics. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey found that 792 individuals in its 2010 random sample of 6911 college graduates in California said that they had engaged in binge drinking in the past year. We can used this finding to calculate confidence intervals for the proportion of all college graduates in California who engaged in binge drinking in the past year. This sample survey may have bias that our confidence intervals do not take into account. Why is some bias likely to be present? Does the sample proportion 11.5% probably overestimate or underestimate the true population proportion?