Comment on Young people are significantly more likely than older generations to hold hostile attitudes towards women

• Womble@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The academics knows too that 3000 people is a small pool to conclude something like

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    • Womble@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, academics know how calculate sample size uncertanties.

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      • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you want to draw conclusions on the ideas of 28 million people i would say you would need to survey at last half of them, projecting the answers of 3000 people to the whole population of australia is a big generalization

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not if you ask me, you cannot project the beliefs of 3000 people into 28 millions

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Humans are not machines that decide things at random

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      • misk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        1. We are machines made out of meat.
        2. It’s irrelevant if the choice was made at random or if it was based on some deep spiritual insight. We’re measuring outcomes, not the rationale.

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