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A small act of trust that the part doesn't lie about the whole.
means A small portion taken from something larger to show or test what the rest of it is like.
from Comes from Old French essample / essemple, worn down from Latin exemplum — 'example, sample, model' — itself from eximere, 'to take out' (ex- 'out' + emere 'to take'). So a sample and an example are etymological siblings: both are things literally 'taken out' to stand for the rest.
- statistics
- the whole field exists because you cannot survey everyone
- music
- a sample under 6 seconds still needs a clearance lawyer
- size matters
- too small and you're just guessing with extra steps
- bias risk
- a biased sample is worse than no sample at all