RE: green bubble syndrome

On 12/10/2024 at 01:53, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-10-11, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:

On 2024-10-11 05:51, Wilf wrote:

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

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?

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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.

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Do you have evidence that the sample pop was chosen properly?

 He does not. If that were known, we wouldn't be having this
conversation.
 

Indeed so - I've made my point that I know nothing about how the sample was chosen - it might be good, it might be bad.  My point, again, is that the small sample size does not in itself invalidate the result.
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Wilf