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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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brabel
318 days ago
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.
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integralid
317 days ago
What if the group is 8 people
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