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Re: Unbiased?

> The reason for random sampling from a real population is that you can't have any prior expectation.

Quite true - but even then you can still have bias, because your "random" sampling protocol is biased (in ways you may be unaware of), or simply because the population you're sampling from has a highly-complex, multi-modal distribution and your sample size is too small.