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Re:King – Man + Woman = King? by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:54PM (#20453316)
> A random distribution is not biased. It really is not a "trick".

A random sample is not a product of a biased sampling method, but it can be (and almost always is) biased, it's just if you take enough such samples, the biases will tend to offset, which is why we say the sampling method isn't biased.

Re:King – Man + Woman = King? by bjourne on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:36PM (#20453627)
You are splitting hairs.