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Create a sampling bias. When you want to prove cats are more popular than dogs, survey people buying cat food. If you want to prove the opposite then survey pe
by flukus 9y ago
Create a sampling bias. When you want to prove cats are more popular than dogs, survey people buying cat food. If you want to prove the opposite then survey people buying dog food. Quite a lot of the statistics you read in otherwise reputable news organisations will have sampling errors like this, sometimes intentionally.
- quuquuquu 9y agoHmm, let me try. An internet poll suggests that Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" shall be the new US national anthem. The sampling bias is that everyone who doesn't use a computer often probably never came across the poll