I keep trying to figure it out, but every resource I find uses the same wording
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Your population is simply the group that you’d be selecting from. If you want to randomly pick individuals that represent a country, you could say your population is everyone living in that country.
The seed is basically where you want to start your randomization. Computers have no way of actually randomizing things, they all have a list of numbers that they read from. Like literally a list of numbers that some guy came up with and then a computer reads it in order to create “random”. The seed is simply telling the computer which number to start at when reading the list. the value is that if you want a “random” distribution but want your calculations to be consistent while running code, you can dictate the seed (e.g. seed=14) so that you get this random list but it stays consistent if you want to run the code more than once, such as while you are developing or during a presentation.
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