The sports section of the East Mule Shoe Gazette runs a weekly question that readers can answer online. After the local university's football squad was beaten by its rival for the forty-second straight season, the question was "Do you think that the coach needs to go?" Of the 182 people who responded, 89 percent said Yes.
When people say that the newspaper poll is biased, they mean that:

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The poll may be biased because it only sampled readers of the newspaper, who may not be representative of the entire population. Additionally, the wording of the question ("Do you think that the coach needs to go?") may have influenced respondents to answer in a particular way. As a result, repeated polls of the same population may consistently produce results that are skewed in the same direction, rather than accurately reflecting the opinions of the broader population.

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