Bob

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Probably the first time I've ever looked at a presidential lineup and simply hoped the two front-runners fall over dead as soon as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, yeah, 1000 people is enough assuming there's no sampling bias. But if you've got sampling bias, increasing the sampling size won't actually help you. The issue you're talking about is unrelated to how many people you talk to.

Your own suggestion of splitting up the respondents by state would itself introduce sampling bias, way over sampling low population states and way under sampling high population states. The survey was interested in the opinions of the nation as a whole, so arbitrary binning by states would be a big mistake. You want your sampling procedure to have equal change of returning a response from any random person in the nation. With a sample size of 1000, you're not going to have much random-induced bias for one location or another, aside from population density, which is fine because the survey is about USA people and not people in sub-USA locations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I very much wouldn't. I'm not interested in the kinds of things a young trophy wife is going to offer. I think being a rich megastar would be bad for my dating game, because it would attract all the wrong people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Suddenly trying to convince all my friends and family I'm from France.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lol, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for speculating about improving weights and measures in a thread about wanting better weights and measures.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

DST is good actually. Fite me.

 
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

A million percent AI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What is it about role-playing that's strictly masculine? Like, why does the group have to be gendered?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just fucking tried to look up cholegolasterol.

 

Yeah. They did exactly that

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