• hedge@beehaw.orgOP
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    2 months ago

    Although a poll of ~1600 people does seem like kind of a small sample size . . .

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      2 months ago

      It’s a fine sample size. That’s a normal national poll. A poll of 1,000 people has a margin of error (from random sampling) of 3%. There are other errors than random chance that could bias a poll, but random chance is what sampling size is generally managing.