brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
They surveyed 1,122 young people and 2,307 adults among 28 million people living in australia and concluded this.
Here’s my conclusion: they cheap out with the research and surveyed a small number of people
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
They surveyed 1,122 young people and 2,307 adults among 28 million people living in australia and concluded this.
Here’s my conclusion: they cheap out with the research and surveyed a small number of people
misk@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That’s more than enough for a statistically significant sample.
Womble@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
I wish all the people who harp on about sample size would at least google it first before commenting that they no better than academics whose job this is.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
The academics knows too that 3000 people is a small pool to conclude something like
Womble@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
No, academics know how calculate sample size uncertanties.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s not if you ask me, you cannot project the beliefs of 3000 people into 28 millions
misk@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
For a binary choice where you expect distribution to be relatively similar you can do it with less than 400 while having 95% confidence and 5% margin of error. That’s just statistics and probability.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Humans are not machines that decide things at random