Brie?y discuss why the survey was described as unscienti?c

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A newspaper headline stated that at a recent budget workshop, nearly three dozen people supported a sales tax increase to help deal with the city's ?nancial de?cit (San Luis Obispo Tribune, January 22, 2005). This conclusion was based on data from a survey acknowledged to be unscienti?c, in which 34 out of the 43 people who chose to attend the budget workshop recommended raising the sales tax. Brie?y discuss why the survey was described as "unscienti?c" and how this might limit the conclusions that can be drawn from the survey data.

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