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by foma-roje 318 days ago
> You certainly don't need to sample more than 25% of any population in order to draw statistical information from it.

Certainly? Now, who is ranting?

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It’s a basic property of statistics. You need an extremely varied population to need a sample of 25%, and almost no human population is that varied in practice. Humans are actually very uniform in fact.
What if the group is 8 people