Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:20:06 +0000 |
People are easy: sort alpha by forename then surname. That's usually pretty random, then pick every nth entry.
You're joking! Ordering by name will give you a list that is strongly
clustered by age and ethnic origin, and therefore a high chance that
certain groups will be completely absent from the sample.
I think we're talking about two different things here: a representative sample as distinct from a random sample. I'm also assuming that N and n have been sized suitably.
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