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| Electrk.:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on May 24, 2017, 06:55:26 PM ---That's 63 thousand people out of 1.8 billion total. its 0.0003% of the population --- End quote --- do you not know how surveys/statistics work |
| otto-san:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on May 24, 2017, 06:55:26 PM ---That's 63 thousand people out of 1.8 billion total. its 0.0003% of the population --- End quote --- you generally consider 10% of the population, but not greater than 1000, to be sufficiently representative, and an error of +/-3% ideal https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm as long as you have a well-distributed random sample, it works. |
| ultimamax:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on May 24, 2017, 06:55:26 PM ---That's 63 thousand people out of 1.8 billion total. its 0.0003% of the population --- End quote --- I don't mean to defend the message that people are making using the statistics, but an unbiased sample of 63000 is extremely representative of the overall population generally. The keyword there being "unbiased" - if you're going to dispute those statistics you should probably look at the methodology and not the sample size. |
| SeventhSandwich:
I think the point PhantOS is making isn't that a sample of 63,000 is statistically insufficient, but rather the fact that people are using these surveys to treat other people badly. Even though they're using the views of one person to judge like 28,571 other people. That is a stuffty thing to do from a human-morality standpoint. If a similar study showed something bad about conservatives, I wouldn't be using that to stuff on my conservative friends. |
| otto-san:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on May 24, 2017, 07:12:17 PM ---I think the point PhantOS is making isn't that a sample of 63,000 is statistically insufficient, but rather the fact that people are using these surveys to treat other people badly. Even though they're using the views of one person to judge like 28,571 other people. That is a stuffty thing to do from a human-morality standpoint. If a similar study showed something bad about conservatives, I wouldn't be using that to stuff on my conservative friends. --- End quote --- if that's the case, then yeah, i agree |
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