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Identify Representative, Random and Biased Samples

Determine whether a described sampling method is random (fair to everyone) or biased (favours certain people).

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Who gets a chance to be surveyed?

A sampling method is random if every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen. It is biased if the method favours a particular group, leaving others out.