This wrong answer is so frequent, though, that maybe people perceive 1 as implicitly saying that Linda is NOT in the feminist movement. Or maybe we average the two probabilities instead of adding them. The Hospitals A certain town is served by two hospitals. In the larger hospital, about 45 babies are born each day. In the smaller one, about 15 babies are born each day.
Larger samples are better.
In this case, the number of children born each day is a random sample of the number of children born in a year. Similarly, there will be more deviation in a sample of size 15 than in one of size 45. People commonly and mistakenly believe that even very small samples will have the same composition as large ones. No one born in this century has lived to be a hundred. The numeracy page.