Imagine that a major television network got the opinions of over 1 million people regarding our next election. The results suggest that Candidate A would win in a landslide over Candidate B. Weeks later, we find that candidate B won in a landslide. Given the results of the election, we are justified to say that the television network's survey was plagued by

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The mismatch between the predictions of the survey and the actual election results suggest that the sample of people surveyed was not representative of the population who actually voted. This could be due to various factors such as biased sampling techniques or non-response bias.

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