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    Challenges→Founders of a new population can constitute an indiscriminate sample of the whole original population even if they all originate from the geographic edge of that population

    A sampling process that systematically under-represents heritable variation from the core population is discriminate with respect to those heritable traits, regardless of whether geography itself is heritable.

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    Key Terms

    Core population(as used in statistics and research)
    The original or main group of people (or organisms) that you're trying to learn about or draw conclusions from.
    Discriminate (in this context)(as used in research methodology and bias)
    To treat unfairly or make distinctions against certain groups; here it means the sampling method unfairly leaves out or under-counts certain inherited traits.
    Heritable traits(as used in genetics)
    Characteristics that are inherited from parents through genes, like eye color or height.
    Heritable variation(as used in genetics and heredity)
    Differences between individuals that can be passed down through genes from parents to children, rather than caused by environment or choice.
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    (as used in statistics and research methodology)
    A method of selecting a smaller group from a larger population to study or analyze, rather than looking at everyone in that population.
    Systematically under-represents(as used in research bias)
    When a selection method consistently leaves out or includes less of certain types of things compared to how common they actually are in the full group.

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