Representative Sample Quotes

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University.

It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

… “broadly representative” is not numeric representation .

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

The bottom line is that we have a more representative sample of middle America in the volunteer force in 1990 than can be achieved in any draft.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

From one learn all.

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here.

You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.