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by mikehearn 1807 days ago
Having a poll in the field for two days is pretty common, and n=258 is definitely enough for a representative sample.
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- This was not a poll.

- Being common doesn't mean it's good or acceptable. In this case, it doesn't account for the effects of day of the week, or what sort of issues the person was having on that day specifically.

- n=258 is enough if it was sampled properly, and they provide no details to show that it was, so it wasn't. They provided nothing more than the engineers they surveyed were in the UK. Nothing on experience, age group distribution, family-size, years of work, company size, work change.

- As it stands, this provides 0 valuable information, and I can only assume it's intended for buzz.

> "It doesn't account for... what sort of issues the person was having on that day specifically"

I'm not clear on what you are suggesting here. Are you saying they should contact people multiple times to make sure they weren't having a bad day the first time around?

2-3 days is common because any longer than that and the survey results will no longer be reflective of a specific point in time.

Also, if you check their crosstabs they have breakdowns for gender and age.