Parade Magazine reported that “nearly 3200 readers dialed a 900 number to respond to a survey in our Jan. 8 cover story on America’s young people and violence” (February 19, 1995, p. 20). Of those...

Parade Magazine reported that “nearly 3200 readers dialed a 900 number to respond to a survey in our Jan. 8 cover story on America’s young people and violence” (February 19, 1995, p. 20). Of those responding, “63.3% say they have been victims or personally know a victim of violent crime.” Can the methods in this chapter legitimately be used to compute a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of Americans who fit that description? Explain why or why not.