Smaller sample sizes mean more random outcomes.

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Though, this wouldn't mean sitting down and reading through 100 sample sentences in one shot.

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Where bills are higher, such as in the South West, they appear to be less keen - although the small sample sizes in these areas mean that the data needs to be treated with caution.

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While this is bad news for anyone claiming to have found DNA in, say an amber-encased mosquito, it does mean that the record for the oldest DNA sample (currently 500, 000 years old) can be broken.

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In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.

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