For several years, the General Social Survey asked subjects, “How often have you felt as though you were in touch with someone when they were far away from you?” Of 3887 sampled subjects who had an opinion, 1407 said never and 2480 said at least once. The proportion who had at least one such experience was 2480/3887 = 0.638.
a. Describe the population of interest.
b. Explain how the sample data are summarized using descriptive statistics.
c. For what population parameter might we want to make an inference?