Spanking In a 2015 Pew Research study on trends in marriage and family (www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/1-the-american-family-today/), 53% of randomly selected parents said that they never spank their children. The 95% confidence interval is from 50.6% to 55.4% (n=1807).

1. Interpret the interval in this context.

2. Explain the meaning of “95% confident” in this context.