• GiddyGap@lemm.eeOP
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      6 months ago

      Statistical analysis 101. You don’t really get to have you own opinion.

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            6 months ago

            It also depends on the context and the purpose of the survey. With a sample size of n=1000, you can get a general sense of the population’s opinions or characteristics if the sample is representative of the population and the survey is well-designed. However, larger sample sizes may be needed if you want to make inferences with more precision or if your population is very diverse, or if you want to drill into sub-segments within the population that may be niche and hard to reach (e.g., minority ethnic groups).

            In that article. I am saying religious groups have niche minorities similar to minority ethnic groups.

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          6 months ago

          What’s the fact here? That this study had more than ten times the sample size?

          That doesn’t make 3,300 an insufficient sample size. It just means this study had a larger sample size.

          And yeah, that study may have different numbers, but it is based on decade-old polling, so of course it does.

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            6 months ago

            I said for religious selection 3,300 is too small a sample size. Their previous studies show they have much larger sample sizes for religious diversity. There’s over 4k religions in the world and while those aren’t all represented in the US I think the sample size should exceed the possible variety.