The clean statistical results (law of large numbers and central limit theorem) only hold for perfectly executed random sampling; in practice sampling plans are rarely executed perfectly because you never get near 100% cooperation, and the non-responders differ systematically from responders in unobservable ways, producing skews rather than mere random noise.
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Doug RiversEvidence Quote
“it's the magic of probability theory that enables you to say two things... the problem is that the sampling plans are rarely executed perfectly”
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