• breadcodes@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s how polls work. I’m not sure if you genuinely don’t know, but that’s just how they are done.

    You can very accurately extrapolate data on the entire population with just 1000 participants. The flaw is in geography distribution, population distribution, willingness to poll, and other types of sample bias, but if they account for those then that’s perfectly valid.

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      1 year ago

      I did not know. That’s why I said I didn’t know and looked it up, and then shared the info i found :)

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        1 year ago

        Good on you for looking it up. I’ve seen so many comments from people who don’t look it up and just go “they only asked 2000 people so this is bullshit”. I initially had thought your original comment would be just another one of those till I read it all.