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"the final sample consisted of 786 participants (653 female, 127 male, 6 other/unspecified) ... 39% Asian, 32% Latino/a/x, 13% White; approximately 40% with hou
by native_samples 5y ago
"the final sample consisted of 786 participants (653 female, 127 male, 6 other/unspecified) ... 39% Asian, 32%
Latino/a/x, 13% White; approximately 40% with household income $0 to $39,999, 28% with income $40,000 to $80,000, 31% with income $80,000 or higher .... an overwhelming majority of participants (94.3%, n = 739) indicated support for the use of trigger warnings in our sample."
That's one heck of an unbalanced sample. The vast majority were women, nearly 1% were "other" and nearly 90% weren't white? Yes they're aiming to study college students specifically rather than the whole US population, but, how representative can this sample really be of even the college population? It feels like anyone who thinks safetyism is bunk didn't even show up for their study at all.
Yes they go ahead and use the normal statistical techniques on the data but there are limits to how far you can fix a sample this overwhelmingly dominated by certain types of people.