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How are 1800 comments in one HN thread post-Macbook-pro launch, an "insignficant sample"? Stats 101. And should we ignore the qualitative evidence that this iss
by vegabook 10y ago
How are 1800 comments in one HN thread post-Macbook-pro launch, an "insignficant sample"? Stats 101. And should we ignore the qualitative evidence that this issue has been picked up by multiple independent sources, including the ultra-Apple-friendly Macrumors itself?
- aioprisan 10y agoYou analyzed 1800 comments and can say which way each leans? 1800 comments from people who come here and want to be heard is not a good sample and is statistically useless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-selection_bias
- vegabook 10y agooh please. Not everything in life has an rsquared and a p-value. It's perfectly obvious, when perusing the HN comments and the rest of the internet, that the Macbook Pro has been generally poorly received by high end users, for credible reasons. You don't need a degree in statistics to figure that out.