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    Nonrepresentative data are bad for out-of-sample generalizations, but can be quite useful for within-sample comparisons.

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    In my experience, government data tends to be less Nonrepresentative, less algorithmically confounded, and less drifting.

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    Additional human error-- including poor facilitator training, recruitment of Nonrepresentative samples, and rushed interpretation of results-- create the potential for ambiguous or unusable research results.

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    Rothman, Gallacher, and Hatch(2013), which has the provocative title“Why representativeness should be avoided,” make a more general argument for the value of intentionally creating Nonrepresentative data.

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    As Snow's work illustrates, there are some scientific questions for which Nonrepresentative data can be quite effective and there are others for which it is not well suited.

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    One thing that is clear, however, is that if you are forced to work with non-probability samples or Nonrepresentative big data sources(think back to Chapter 2), then there is a strong reason to believe that estimates made using post-stratification and related techniques will be better than unadjusted, raw estimates.

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