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A large sample of the wrong people is just a waste of time: How to tell if your sample is representative

October 03, 2018 | Pieta Blakely
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I recently posted a #tiptuesday in which I said that a sample of the wrong people was a waste of time. A friend asked “how do you know it’s the wrong people?” That’s a great question and I’ll address it here. First, what is sampling and why do we do it?

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