RE: green bubble syndrome

On 11/10/2024 at 16:40, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-10-11, Wilf <wilf21@is.invalid> wrote:

On 10/10/2024 at 17:28, Jolly Roger wrote:

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Apple sold 2.5 BILLION iPhones (as of 2023, so not counting 2024),
and you are trying to tell us that a survey of 1000 people is
significant?  Quick question: How many times do you think 1000 goes
into 2.5 billion?

>
If the sample is chosen properly (and that's the critical part),
results from a small but representative sample of the whole population
can be statistically significant.  So just because someone has no
background in statistics is a not a reason to necessarily doubt the
premise.

 Again, they tell us nothing about how these people were selected or
approached for this survey. And I disagree that you should not be
critical of data like this - especially when it doesn't seem to reflect
opinions of other small samplings of iPhone users.
 

Of course its very sensible to be sceptical about how the sample was chosen etc., my point is that just because the sample size is small does not in itself invalidate it.
--
Wilf