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The article does not point out that sampling quora users might not be (I would say is probably not) an unbiased estimator of the the students of these places as
by azylman 14y ago
The article does not point out that sampling quora users might not be (I would say is probably not) an unbiased estimator of the the students of these places as a whole.
From the article:
Also, a word of warning: my dataset was fairly small and users on Quora are almost certainly not representative of their schools as a whole (though I tried to be rigorous with what I had).
- ballooney 14y agoI completely missed that, mea culpa, my apologies to the author. I'll leave the message above unedited as a little warning sign to other people who can't read: you too can look silly like me.