Which of these statements will be the result when a sampling distribution is compared to a population distribution?
A) The two distributions will always be the same.
B) The two distributions will become identical as the size of the sample increases.
C) There will always be more variance in the population distribution.
D) There will always be more variance in the sampling distribution.

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The population distribution typically has more variance because it includes all possible data points, while a sampling distribution is based on a subset of the population and tends to have less variance due to averaging effects.

Which of These Statements Will Be the Result When a Sampling