diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
index 7335f1cb066ce..a8afb05bc5200 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
@@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@ different numeric dtypes will **NOT** be combined. The following example will gi
        {
            "A": pd.Series(np.random.randn(8), dtype="float16"),
            "B": pd.Series(np.random.randn(8)),
-           "C": pd.Series(np.array(np.random.randn(8), dtype="uint8")),
+           "C": pd.Series(np.random.randint(0, 255, size=8), dtype="uint8"),  # [0,255] (range of uint8)
        }
    )
    df2