random sample
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He says his office reviewed a random sample of 220 claims and found 398 violations of state law in roughly half.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
A completely unscientific random sample suggested Kemi Badenoch was the local favourite.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024
In testing blood samples collected from a random sample of 63 adult blood donors, the researchers found that antibodies resulting from a previous infection of swine flu also reacted to the N1 protein in H5N1.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024
The survey was not given to a random sample of transgender people, so it cannot be interpreted as representative of the transgender population as a whole.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
