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sadbear

(4,340 posts) Fri Nov 2, 2012, 01:17 PM Nov 2012

Some clarification about sample sizes.

One of my pet peeves is people complaining about survey results when pollster only interviewed 800-1000 people. If you took statistics in college, they explained why N=800-1000 is a sufficient sample size for ANY population, as long as it was truly a random sample. Here is an article that explains. Please read it if you think 800-1000 is not big enough:

http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/best-estimates-guide-sample-size-and-margin-error

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Some clarification about sample sizes. (Original Post) sadbear Nov 2012 OP

I especially liked the comment that TX has over 25,000,000 residents Fresh_Start Nov 2012 #1

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)

1. I especially liked the comment that TX has over 25,000,000 residents

Reply to sadbear (Original post)

Fri Nov 2, 2012, 02:16 PM

Nov 2012

so it needed a bigger sample size.

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