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biased sample [¦bī·əst ′sam·pəl] (statistics) A sample obtained by a procedure that incorporates a systematic error introduced by taking items from a wrong population or by favoring some elements of a population. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A group of outside activists and gay psychiatrists and psychologists presented the Committee with arguments made by Evelyn Hooker and Alfred Kinsey that homosexuality was not associated with psychopathology and that all other studies on homosexuality were intrinsically flawed, because of sampling bias. I considered how much impact this kind of sampling bias might have had on the studies of the molecular epidemiology of TB published to date. Probably what they're seeing is a real sampling bias," he says. |
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