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Assignment Is Not Sampling

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Random assignment builds the groups within a study; random sampling builds the sample from a population.

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A campus study can assign perfectly at random and still describe only that campus.

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A study can do one well and the other badly. Assignment protects causal claims; sampling protects generalization.

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