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So all the survey subject members were Mechanical Turk users? That sounds like a terrible representation.
by pbreit 10y ago
So all the survey subject members were Mechanical Turk users? That sounds like a terrible representation.
- Houshalter 10y agoSadly it's still a thousand times better than the book it's disputing, which has little or no empirical backing.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoBad statistics aren't better than no statistics.
- LionessLover 10y agoLooking at your comment I find this funny. All you make is an assertion.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoIf you take a group that's not representative of the population and you know nothing about the underlying distribution - that's not giving you better information it's just letting you be mislead into making statements which are erroneous.