samples

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They examined potential causes and origins for the lunar sample's unique makeup.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

The completion of the sample’s 1.2-billion-mile trip to Earth is part of a trio of missions in a season that Lori Glaze, NASA’s chief of planetary science, has called “asteroid autumn.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Analyzing the sample’s mineral makeup under a microscope, the researchers were able to pinpoint sand grains from Argyle’s ancient beach and to date them with the help of radioactive elements they contained.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

The general market sample’s initial recruitment was balanced to households from the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023

If the distribution of the population is not too dispersed or varied, we can, again, have more confidence that the sample’s characteristics are representative.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos