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When an organization conducts an opinion poll, it reports the percentage of the people sampled who favor some issue, such as the percentage who favor the death penalty. If the poll were repeated many times, the resulting sample percentages-one from each poll-would form a sampling distribution. Sampling distributions are very important in statistics, but we usually must imag?ine what the sampling distribution looks like because the people who conduct a poll don’t repeat it. (If they do ask the same question in another poll, it is only after time has elapsed so that people’s opinions may have changed.)
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G. Giles (1986), “The Stirling recording sheet for experiments in probability,” in P. Holmes (ed.), The Best of Teaching Statistics, Sheffield, England: Teaching Statistics Trust, pp. 8–14.
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Scheaffer, R.L., Watkins, A., Gnanadesikan, M., Witmer, J.A. (1996). Spinning Pennies. In: Activity-Based Statistics. Textbooks in mathematical sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3843-8_18
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