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> What does 'best' mean? The statistical most profound? The cheapest for the university? It means the method producing the sample most representative of the po
by dataflow 4y ago
> What does 'best' mean? The statistical most profound? The cheapest for the university?
It means the method producing the sample most representative of the population. It's fairly obvious they're not asking about (say) budget/cost minimization on a statistics test.
- mharig 4y ago'Fairly obvious' ist not really scientific. I may be a little bit picky, but if someone cannot formulate a clear question in such a simple case, he will fail more badly in more complicated cases.