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.
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 3 weeks ago
The academics knows too that 3000 people is a small pool to conclude something like
Womble@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
No, academics know how calculate sample size uncertanties.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 weeks 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
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry but you’re just wrong. Go read up on how this works, you should be able to find lots of sources.