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Subject: RE: green bubble syndrome
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On 12/10/2024 at 22:44, Your Name wrote:
>> That's my point.  We have to be persuaded that the sample was properly
>> chosen.  Beyond that, the relatively small sample size does not in
>> itself invalidate the significance of the results.
> The results are only valid for the 1000 people they bothered to survey.
> Claiming anything above that is pure nonsense and at best simply a very
> rough guesstimate.
> 
> Such surveys should always specifically say something like "40% of the
> people surveyed" ...NOT EVER simply "40% of people", because
> that's where the novice general public then confuses it with being
> reality for everyone, when it is not.


Evidently you have not studied statistics.

-- 
Wilf