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You can just ask "tweets for which the Unix timestamp mod 97 = 21", which is easy to verify and will smooth out any conceivable selection bias.
by sudosysgen 4y ago
You can just ask "tweets for which the Unix timestamp mod 97 = 21", which is easy to verify and will smooth out any conceivable selection bias.
- Galanwe 4y agoRight, but in that case the choice is between a pre-made extract with unknown sampling, or a full population. Asking for a custom-made sample is really the same as requesting the whole population and sampling yourself.
- sudosysgen 4y agoWell no, it's not the same, because you don't need to handle the whole population. And as far as sampling this is trivially simple.