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Representative, Random and Biased Samples

Learn to judge whether a sampling method is likely to give a fair, representative picture of a population, or a biased one.

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Who did you actually ask?

A survey can only tell you about the whole population fairly if the people you asked are a fair reflection of that population. How you pick who to ask matters just as much as what you ask.