I will agree that the sample is skewed, but I wasn't trying to make the point that the particular 100k people in question constitute a representative sample of

I will agree that the sample is skewed, but I wasn't trying to make the point that the particular 100k people in question constitute a representative sample of the world. I was replying to the sentiment that because the world doesn't consist of 100k people, you can't call 100k people's goals the world's goals. I may not have expressed that as clearly as I could have. I agree; this represents only a certain type of person in the world, but again, conclusions about the world have been drawn from more specific types. I just feel it's petty to focus on the title of the article, when the word "world" is consistently applied in narrower senses.