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Can someone explain to me. How can it be random but weighted in favour of local people? Either it is random selection or it isn't!

I don't mind that local people are favoured. If it ever came to this area then I would want to have a bigger chance than someone in London. I just don't understand the logistics of making it half random.

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Can someone explain to me. How can it be random but weighted in favour of local people? Either it is random selection or it isn't!

I assume they just put in post code masks for the local area for a certain amount of the tickets.

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Can someone explain to me. How can it be random but weighted in favour of local people? Either it is random selection or it isn't!

I don't mind that local people are favoured. If it ever came to this area then I would want to have a bigger chance than someone in London. I just don't understand the logistics of making it half random.

*Grace puts on her statistics hat*

Random and weighting are different things, and aren't mutually exclusive (if you're clever about it). For example, I could say I've got ten tickets to give to a group of 100 people, and they've going to be weighted so that 8/10 tickets will go to people in Maidstone. I could stilll do it randomly because you'd divide the group into Maidstone and not-Maidstone, and then give 8 tickets randomly to the first group, and two to the second. I think that's how Radio One can still say it's a random selection, as they don't pick the individual people.

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This is not a random sample. In a random sample all outcomes must be equally likely. I'd say this is a stratified sample, where the population is divided into groups and then people are chosen from each stratum separately. Tickets could still be allocated randomly, but the sample cannot be random.

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Haha, so you've registered for tickets but you're not actually hoping to get any?

Something like that! Well, it's free so I thought: "Why not?". I had a much better chance last year, though, Preston is only 45 minutes away on the train.

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I'd have to get three trains, and I'm crap with trains so I'll be in a pickle if I get tickets.

I'm not sure how many I'd need to get, but if you need 3 then I'm sure I'll have to get a lot more. It'll cost loads!

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I cannot believe that some people are actually worried that they will get tickets :D

"Oh my god I've got tickets, quick hide them in this carrier bag and we'll dispose of them in the canal! Don't tell anyone, let's use a code word to make sure no one knows. I could get a criminal record for this!" ;)

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I have applied for tickets because mum said she would spend saturday with me instead of sunday (my birthday) and now she says she wants to spend sunday with me. If i get tickets i will just have to bring her with me haha. how fun. not. at least i would be ther ethough i suppose. anyway that is only if i get a ticket which i doubt i will.

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