From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sun Oct 04 1998 - 11:48:15 MDT
spike66@ibm.net (Spike Jones) writes:
>> Spike Jones wrote:
>>
>> > how, extropians? how how how how do we do it? spike
>>
>> Dennis Roberts wrote: ...What is the size of your survey?
>
>as huge as possible, in order to pick out subtle signals in the noise.
People who think size is the most important attribute of a statistical
sample should remember the magazine that polled 1/3 of the U.S. voters in
1936 and concluded a Landonslide was imminent.
The rest of us prefer to remember the obscure pollster named Gallup
who polled a much smaller sample and predicted a Roosevelt victory.
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