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 television network's survey was plagued by

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The discrepancy between the survey results and the actual election results suggests that the survey was affected by sampling bias, meaning that the sample of over 1 million people was not a representative sample of the population as a whole. Therefore, the survey results cannot be used to accurately predict the outcome of the election.

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