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What do you think is a good sample size? How would you arrive at one?
by orhmeh09 2y ago
What do you think is a good sample size? How would you arrive at one?
- aunty_helen 2y agoThere isn’t one. Some things are not measurable by this standard and the stats relatively meaningless. 3000 people from a whole continent? Cmon
- kragen 2y agoplease see the introduction to statistical methods linked above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590633
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoIf your question is asked entirely free of bias from a truly randomly selected population, you can use standard statistical methods to come up with a number based on your desired confidence interval. On the other hand, if you're an organization with your funding tied to the perception that people support your mission, and you're surveying whether people support your mission, I'm going to need damn near everyone in the population to respond to your survey before I'll buy it.
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