Statistical Sampling Paddle

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In high school I took a Probability and Statistics class and my teacher had this really cool setup for doing experiments in statistical inference using random samples. It was a big wooden bowl with 10,000 marbles of various colors, and paddles that had different numbers of holes in them. I scoured the internet looking for a set that I could purchase to help teach my kids the formulae, but found nothing. So I had to assemble my own. This is the 100-sample paddle. I may eventually make other sizes. This model works with beads or marbles that are 8mm in diameter.