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The importance of not taking every measurement

Senior teaching fellow Robert Spooner explains why random sampling from a test population is a better approach than measuring every single member of the test population

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You have been tasked with determining the average length of frogs in two fields, testing the null hypothesis that they are the same size in fields surrounded by wildflower-borders as in a monoculture crop. You design a beautiful experiment, wishing to be as accurate as possible. Your plan might include the following points.

■ Hire a bulldozer, scrape the contents of each field into mesh sieves.

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