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. 2006 Oct 6;361(1475):2023–2037. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1921

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Small samples can be very misleading. To demonstrate the unreliability of small sample sizes, four radically different distributions (on the left) were sampled (200 individuals selected randomly) and the resulting distributions (shown on the right) plotted (Sloan et al. in press). Note that all the sample distributions are superficially alike.