random sample

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The first thing is, if you're going to have a random sample of people deliberating, you need to have a good random sample.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

A completely unscientific random sample suggested Kemi Badenoch was the local favourite.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024

The survey was not given to a random sample of transgender people, so it cannot be interpreted as representative of the transgender population as a whole.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

The composition of panels is carefully calibrated to mirror that of the random sample survey to make sure that key demographic and ideological groups are not over- or underrepresented.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos