Children out of School in America is a report on delinquency of school-age children prepared by the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a government-sponsored organization. Consider the following three reported results of the CDF survey.

• Reported result 1: 25% of the 16- and 17-year-olds in the Portland, Maine, Bayside East Housing Project were out of school. Fact: Only eight children were surveyed; two were found to be out of school.

• Reported result 2: Of all the secondary-school students who had been suspended more than once in census tract 22 in Columbia, South Carolina, 33% had been suspended two times and 67% had been suspended three or more times. Fact: CDF found only three children in that entire census tract who had been suspended; one child was suspended twice and the other two children, three or more times.

• Reported result 3: In the Portland Bayside East Housing Project, 50% of all the secondary-school children who had been suspended more than once had been suspended three or more times. Fact: The survey found two secondary-school children had been suspended in that area; one of them had been suspended three or more times.

Identify the potential distortions in the results reported by the CDF.