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numerical evidence from records, studies, reports, surves, polls, and the like. |
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| selecting and observing members of a group or population who are taken to be representative of the rest of the group. |
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| Generalizations from a sample |
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| claims that take, as their evidence, observation of a sample drawn from a population, and advance a general conclusion about members of the population not directly observed |
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the members of a group actually observed or consulted. |
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| the group or class to which the generalization is meant to apply |
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| a quality projected from the sample to the population |
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extent of the generalization |
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| the portion of the population that is said to exhibit the property |
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| that the sample accurately reflects the presence of the quality in the entire population |
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| relevant differences among members in a population-- the degree to which members of a population vary in ways that may be relevant to the quality being tested in a generalization |
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| fallacy of hasty generalization |
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| a generalization based on a sample that is too small to support it |
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| the size of a sample relative to the total number of members in the population |
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| a sample that adequately reflects the various groups and variations within the population |
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| a sample in which every member of a given population had an equal chance of being selected for the sample |
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| arithmetical average, the sum of a set of figures divided by the number of figures in the set |
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| the figure that exactly diveds the top halfr from the bottom half in a range of figures |
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| the most frequently occurring observation or response in a sample |
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| a statement that assumes that what is true of the population now will also be true of it in the future |
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