• @cricket97
    link
    English
    41 year ago

    that is a sufficient enough sample size to analyze trends.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      41 year ago

      The person you responded to doesn’t understand statistics. As long as your sample is random and unbiased, you don’t need to sample the whole population.

      Think of someone cooking. They just taste a little bit of the food to adjust the spices. If they mixed it up evenly, they don’t need to eat the whole thing to get an idea of how it tastes. That is the basis of random sampling.

      • @cricket97
        link
        English
        41 year ago

        There’s a weird online phenomena of people with no knowledge of statistics criticizing the sample size of studies they disagree with. Of course that criticism never comes up when it backs up their world view.