Alt title: Have they tried calling their Representatives tho?

  • mang0@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Margin of error assumes the sampling is random and representative, which of course is very hard to achieve in practice and especially with a laughably small sample size. Not really some magic number of truth as you’d like to present it.

    • stickly@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      You’re right about keeping an eye on sampling but you don’t know much about stats if you think 600+ respondents isn’t enough to draw any conclusions.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.ioOP
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      6 days ago

      You can start making statistical conclusions from as few as 3 samples and from around 30 you’re only getting square root improvements in margin of error. 600+ respondents is more than enough if there’s no selection bias, which I’d trust YouGov to be able to handle.