At 11:17 AM -0600 2/23/00, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Remember that random sampling does not guarantee that you will have
>a representative sample.
In the real world, what does?
>What it does is guarantee that any
>differences are not systematic. If the sample were always
>representative we would not need to replicate our studies.
That's assuming that researchers were not human, with all the human
imperfections and frailities.
There's also such a thing as _systematic_ replication: making a small
change in one experimental variable to establish generality.
>Joyce Morris
>Public Health Sciences
>Wichita State University
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