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Uniform or fair
Randomized audits & sampling
A sample can make a large population inspectable when selection is genuinely representative.
Evaluation card
What “plenty” means here.
- Required property
- A documented sampling frame, intended probabilities, and a draw that cannot be quietly steered.
- If it fails
- Missing populations or biased selection makes the audit confidently answer the wrong question.
- Relevant attacker
- An audited party predicting which records will be selected, plus unintentional sampling bias.
- The Plenty Line
- Protect the seed until the population is fixed, publish the method, and retain enough evidence to reproduce the sample.
- Why more is not automatically better
- A stronger generator cannot repair a biased source list or a sample too small for the inference.
Where it appears
Recognize the pattern.
- 01risk-limiting election audits
- 02expense audits
- 03quality-control sampling
The Plentropy rule
Protect the requirement, then stop.
Protect the seed until the population is fixed, publish the method, and retain enough evidence to reproduce the sample.
Once that claim has comfortable evidence and margin, improve the next limiting factor instead of worshipping a larger entropy number.