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Roger Bacon, Opus Majus.
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
A Hard Row to Hoe
During the question-and-answer part of a presentation I gave at the 2010 Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore last week, I couldn’t resist editorializing about how bad convenience sampling is. One audience member spoke up, saying she felt convenience samples are … Continue reading
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