Diana and Kinsey are put in charge of choosing a mascot for their basketball team. There are fifteen players on the team, but Diana and Kinsey survey only the five players on the starting lineup about their favorite mascot.Which best describes this error in data collection?

The survey includes only the five starting players, even though the team has fifteen players. The starters may not represent the favorite mascots of the whole team, so the data are inadequate for choosing a mascot for everyone. There is no indication that the answers were false or recorded incorrectly.

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