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Old 11-20-2018, 04:05 AM
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tomgoodman
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Indeed, the flaw in many studies, polls, and surveys is that the sample being observed is not truly representative of the population at large. Sometimes this is actually known to the researcher, but it helps in obtaining their desired result.
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