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That's not such a rigorous answer:
Imagine you have a random sample with
nobservationsx_1, ...,x_n, independently and identically distributed according to some distribution with meanmuand variances^2.The sample mean is
sum(x_i)/n(the expected value ismuas one would hope). Doing some manipulations we find that this has variances^2/n, i.e. a largenmeans a small variance, so larger samples are more tightly clustered aroundmu.