<s>[INST] Within the given research, there are 364 observations of direct effects of extraterrestrial media upon people. These observations consist of 169 reports of live abductions and 195 reports of inanimate objects (cars, buildings, etc.). The abductions and inanimate object reports could be thought of as a random sample from the universe of all abduction and inanimate object reports. The research question is to estimate the population proportion of reports that represent live abductions. We need to calculate the sample proportion of reports that represent live abductions and the standard error of this sample proportion. Sample proportion \(=\frac{\text{number of reports of live abductions}}{\text{number of total reports}}=\frac{169}{364}\) Standard error of sample proportion \(=\sqrt{\frac{\text{sample proportion}(1-\text{sample proportion})}{\text{number of total reports}}}\)\(=\sqrt{\frac{(169\,/\,364)(185\,/\,364)}{364}}=0.0279\).[/INST]