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
Our verification of a random sample of 400 of them found the database to be reliable.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
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 Berkeley IGS poll was conducted Jan. 4-8 online among a random sample of 8,199 registered voters, including a weighted sub-sample of 4,470 likely primary voters and 1,351 likely Republican primary voters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024
The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
