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In research (quantitative or qualitative) you will almost always find it is important to sample. Please explain why sampling is important and its implications in the knowable/unknowable debate.

Consider in you response how the concepts of a population (and its associated parameters) and the sample (and its associated estimates) fits into the discussion.

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