Probability sampling is now the accepted method of scientific sampling.

Not a very scientific sampling, you say?

But on the basis of my highly scientific sampling of two, I can guarantee that children do sort these things out.

Erosion, scientific sampling and vandalism have reduced its bulk over the years.

In 1970, for example, he defended the use of scientific sampling of public opinion to plan political campaigns.

A young high school history teacher in Moscow recently conducted a somewhat less scientific sampling of about 100 students.

While I had done no scientific sampling, it seemed that more than half the adults I met were not living with spouses.

Nonetheless, the five I tasted (to make it a scientific sampling) seemed pretty good to me.

The median age of this audience may have been closer to 50 than 30, and they certainly didn't constitute a scientific sampling.

Trawling is also commonly used as a scientific sampling, or survey, method [1].