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Also at 90% you have a fairly high assurance of what the general consensus is.
by hanniabu 7y ago
Also at 90% you have a fairly high assurance of what the general consensus is.
- dllthomas 7y agoWhat's the consensus in the US about Trump? What if you sample just the Democratic debate audience? What if you sample just a Trump rally? Even at 90% you know very little without something close enough to a representative sample. It's true that it's a strong enough signal that it's not accounted for by small biases.
- shpongled 7y agoOnly assuming that the sample is actually representative. If I just polled 10 people in San Francisco on something, a result of 90% doesn't mean you have anything resembling a general consensus
- notahacker 7y agoThere might be sections of Peruvian society IPSOS can't reach, but I don't think their methodology is that flawed
- vkou 7y agoIt might not be flawed, it might just be deliberately biased. But who knows, I certainly don't.