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Old Dec 20, 2006, 07:20 pm   #58 (permalink) (top)
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You have to be completely random and have a huge base, but even then, bias can be put into the wording in undetectable ways.
And if the questioning was done face-to-face, even the inflection in the voice as the question is asked can change the results. It is exactly because of these kinds of things that I reject the entire notion of statistical sampling.


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