Practice question · True or false
A large digitized corpus can be treated as a representative sample of the archive.
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- Digitisation followed funding, copyright and legibility.
- Nobody designed the resulting collection as a sample.
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False
Why
It is the well-funded, out-of-copyright, OCR-friendly corner of the archive, sampled by nobody according to no design. It resembles everything only from the inside of the search box.
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