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To: PIF
is a sample of 100,000 valid to draw conclusions for the other 79,900,000 species?

It is possible that a sample size of 100,000 may be enough to draw a proper conclusion. It depends on the sampling criteria and methodology used. That is often why analysts will use a sampling error deviation (e.g. + or - 3%).

The problem with today's political polling methodology (and other polls) is that people deliberately skew the sampling to favor their views never reporting the bias of their own statistics. If a person polls 70% Democrats, then the polls will not be accurate (which is what happens today).

121 posted on 06/12/2018 5:57:20 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

This is the original study - don’t know if it states how they made their sampling criteria and methodology. Perhaps is is something you might be interested in reading

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Stoeckle-Thaler-Final-reduced.pdf


123 posted on 06/12/2018 3:58:11 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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