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My key takes on this article are: 1) Gov needed more $$$. They could either reform/progress the state and let the economy generate freely the extra $$$ in 2-5-

My key takes on this article are: 1) Gov needed more $$$. They could either reform/progress the state and let the economy generate freely the extra $$$ in 2-5-10 years OR impose a new tax "on those slackers who spend all day in social media". They chose the latter as they can create a narrative to convince the masses on the validity of this new tax. Edit/addition: And the fact that reforming the state requires change, disrupting cliques, reduce corruption, reduce bureaucracy, so instead they thrash anything modern they cannot control and doesn't serve the "old ideas". 2) "Sample" of 2700 and then calling it "National IT Survey" in a 20.7m population is a joke/travesty. It looks like they shared some A4 pages in a couple of ministries, asked the employees to get their kids to fill them up and called it a day. Apologies for over simplifying things.

sfifs 8y ago
> "Sample" of 2700 and then calling it "National IT Survey" in a 20.7m population is a joke/travesty. For well designed, stratified and representative surveys 2700 is actually pretty good sample size and will get you to +/- couple of percent points accuracy. There's a whole well studied sciencee behind "design of experiments" that goes into pretty much any R&D or market research effort. Nothing will save you however if you don't design and administer the research well. If you don't believe this and know a bit of programming, simply whip up a Monte Carlo program to repeatedly randomly sample 2700 without replacement from a dataset of 10 million a few thousand times, measure and histogram your estimtes and see the range where you end up most of the time. I actually do this when teaching introductory stats to new analysts and market researchers because seeing is the first step to understanding :-)

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My key takes on this article are: 1) Gov needed more $$$. They could either reform/progress the state and let the economy generate freely the extra $$$ in 2-5-

by HenryBemis 8y ago

sfifs 8y ago
> "Sample" of 2700 and then calling it "National IT Survey" in a 20.7m population is a joke/travesty. For well designed, stratified and representative surveys 2700 is actually pretty good sample size and will get you to +/- couple of percent points accuracy. There's a whole well studied sciencee behind "design of experiments" that goes into pretty much any R&D or market research effort. Nothing will save you however if you don't design and administer the research well. If you don't believe this and know a bit of programming, simply whip up a Monte Carlo program to repeatedly randomly sample 2700 without replacement from a dataset of 10 million a few thousand times, measure and histogram your estimtes and see the range where you end up most of the time. I actually do this when teaching introductory stats to new analysts and market researchers because seeing is the first step to understanding :-)