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"diverse backgrounds" What does that mean exactly? Surely a random sample of people will have diverse backgrounds.
by collyw 6y ago
"diverse backgrounds"
What does that mean exactly? Surely a random sample of people will have diverse backgrounds.
- turing_complete 6y agoI found that strange too. Diverse is a relative term, not an absolute one.
- rimliu 6y agoRandom sample of women aged 19-30 would be less diverse than random sample from anybody.
- lbeltrame 6y agoIt means that it includes people from different ethnicity, ages (also younger and older people) and some immunocompromised people.
- cblconfederate 6y agoshouldnt they be focusing on older people? in fact if they are first to be vaccinated the fatality would drop very very significantly
- lbeltrame 6y agoThe 56-85 age bracket is 45% of the volounteers tested, according to Pfizer.
- stu2b50 6y agoYou want to have at least a nontrivial group of every race and ethnicity to ensure that you collect enough data to make sure it's also effective on everyone. Additional challenges in the US are that many minority communities are distrustful of the pharmaceutical industry due to historical reasons and you typically need a concentrated effort to do outreach there to actually collect enough volunteers to meet your sampling concerns.
- ggghhhfff 6y agoRandom sample != representative sample