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I often see polls of 1K Americans and extrapolating out from there. An example: http://www.webpronews.com/americans-think-cloud-computing-comes-from-actual-clo

by Zikes 13y ago

I often see polls of 1K Americans and extrapolating out from there. An example: http://www.webpronews.com/americans-think-cloud-computing-comes-from-actual-clouds-2012-08 http://www.webpronews.com/americans-think-cloud-computing-co... Of course, the refrain I often hear is that as long as you pick the RIGHT 1,000 Americans, it's as good as polling all 319 million.

gnaritas 13y ago
> Of course, the refrain I often hear is that as long as you pick the RIGHT 1,000 Americans, it's as good as polling all 319 million. If it's a proper random sample, then it's far better than sampling all 319 million because it's 95% accurate with about a 3% margin of error and vastly cheaper and actually practical; you can't poll 319 million people.