Why in general are truly random samples hard to come by?

A. It is not a good idea to discount any factor as unimportant.
B. Unexpected generalizations are likely to hold with any sample.
C. A truly random sample has to be generated by a computer.
D. Any sample always includes some outliers.


B

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