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A thousand is enough for a representative sample.
by chomp 3y ago
A thousand is enough for a representative sample.
- ericpauley 3y agoCould be the people that spend time answering random surveys online and the people that use dating apps are different.
- nvm0n2 3y agoIt's not even clear how they were recruited. Generation Lab says only that it was via proprietary methods i.e. they won't tell you. Why not? Is there anything so sensitive how they got in touch with students? Normally, polling firms are more open. It suggests they don't want you to know where their lists came from (could be as bad as MTurk).
- bluGill 3y agoIt is enough, but only if you collect a good sample. I'm not sure what a good sample is. In college I'd expect a big difference between undergrads and grad students (as students get older they are more likely to settle down with someone and marry, so even seniors vs freshmen should show a difference)
- itointegral 3y agoThis is absolutely false in lots of scenarios, one of them being when you're dealing with a heterogenous population, which seems to be the case here.
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- rjmunro 3y agoIndeed. Also a larger sample doesn't help with "some bias they didn't account for", it just marginally narrows the margin of error.