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On 2024-10-13 12:14:32 +0000, Wilf said:
> 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.

As I said before, I have a university degree in mathematics and 
statistics. I know full well all about the incredible misuse of 
statistics and the blind belief by the general public whenever they see 
a % symbol.