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The sampling was not random; they got their participants from a Facebook ad. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1 https://www.medrxiv.
by wbronitsky 6y ago
The sampling was not random; they got their participants from a Facebook ad.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoSo, about as random as this Facebook survey then?
- wbronitsky 6y agoYes, in that neither of them are random
- justapassenger 6y agoNo idea if Facebook did that, but they do know demographic profile of responders, so they could correct data to make it more stat sig.
- pedrosorio 6y agoThe people who chose to respond to this ad were probably a very biased sample of the population: https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1251270848075440133/photo/1 https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1251270848075440133/photo...