in 2005 the san francisco bay times reported on a poll in new zealand that found that new zealanders opposed the nation`s new gay-inclusive civil-unions law by a 3-1 ratio. This poll was a call-in poll that cost $1 to participate in, The san francisco bay times article also reported that a scientific polling organization found that new zealanders favor the law by margin of 56.4% to 39.3%. explain to someone who knows no statistics why the two polls can give such a widely differing results and which poll is likely to be be more reliable

In the given data  reported poll on a new Zealand.

The article reported that new Zealanders favors the law by a margin of 56.4% to 39.3%

These difference in results in which poll is likely to be more reliable is that the San Francisco Bay Times utilized the Voluntary Response technique ( Voluntary reaction strategy is self chosen technique, it's kin decision whether to give reaction or not). So the two surveys can give such generally varying outcomes.

Thus their survey results can't be viewed as dependable

trapezoid

step-by-step explanation:

first i plotted all my points on a grid graph

i made sure all of them were in the correct quadrant

then i saw it was a trapezoid or a quadrilateral