G'day Danial,

Actually, random selection is a foundation of scientific method. Would you rather me list all 7,000 stations? McKinsey didn't survey every person in the US, yet his sample seems to have been large enough to remain valid. A great deal of science relies on sampling. Ice core samples for instance. The question is whether the sample is big enough to be representative. 25? Not even close but it still is interesting. As I said, if you do not like the sample, do the experiment yourself.

Somehow you are suggesting the list is too long but that it should not have been random. The two are mutually exclusive.


Richard

Sane=fits in. Unreasonable=world needs to fit to him. All Progress requires unreasonableness