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Let’s cover the basics briefly so we can get to the howling-in-frustration bit. In <a href="http://bit.ly/quaesita_statistics" target="_blank">statistics</a>,<strong> a population is the collection of all items that you are interested in </strong>(for the purpose of <a href="http://bit.ly/quaesita_pointofstats" target="_blank">making a decision rigorously</a>).