How to Lie with Statistics
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Is Your Sample Really Representative of the Population?
In order for stats to be in any way meaningful, everybody has an equal chance of being part of this random sample. If you're loking for objective results, if yo'r loking to skew the results, and athin a i cod self serve what you're looking to get, then you coud obviously just cherry pick a few of thethet you know, population before you go in. So he says it has to be representative. It doesn't have to be exactly 50 % men, fif % women. Exact splitive religions, incomes, number people in the family, level of education. But what it means is that everybody has to have the right chance to be
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