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I would also note . . . that in terms of solid statistical results, the sample size is not near as important as whether the sample is REPRESENTATIVE of the population in terms of all the variables being measured and in terms of holding all the other variables equal or random.

[MarkBsnr]

I would also note . . . that in terms of solid statistical results, the sample size is not near as important as whether the sample is REPRESENTATIVE of the population in terms of all the variables being measured and in terms of holding all the other variables equal or random.

Yes, yes. And how are you going to indicate how representative of 1.2 billion plus people across the world a sample in some hollow of the United States would be. I would advise my Protestant friends to untuck their heads from their navels and consider that the world is not the county of the United States that they grew up in.