• @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      I know jack shit about statics, or this study, but 10K participants seems more than solid if it’s proper science.

    • Skull giver
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      51 year ago

      That only applies to statistics that follow a nornal distribution. If there’s no bell curve, these numbers don’t make sense.

      I don’t know if the distribution is or isn’t shaped well for this kind of statistical analysis, but sample sizes and confidence intervals don’t always work and are sometimes used to distort data.