On a final exam a student was asked to define sampling error. He wrote:  "sampling error is roughly the average difference between a sample statistic and the population parameter".  Unfortunately, this is not the definition of sampling error, but it is the correct definiition of something else. What has the student defined?

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On a final exam a student was asked to define sampling error. He wrote: 

"sampling error is roughly the average difference between a sample statistic and the population parameter". 

Unfortunately, this is not the definition of sampling error, but it is the correct definiition of something else. What has the student defined? 

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