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Sample Size and Sample Bias
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Samples fail small — too few cases — or crooked: systematically unrepresentative. Bias is worse; no sample size cures it.
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The 1936 Literary Digest poll: 2.4 million responses, a skewed sampling frame, and heavy nonresponse bias. Landslide predicted; landslide happened — the other way.
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Big and biased beats small and biased only at being confidently wrong.