I mean, yeah, 1000 people is enough assuming there’s no sampling bias. But if you’ve got sampling bias, increasing the sampling size won’t actually help you. The issue you’re talking about is unrelated to how many people you talk to.
Your own suggestion of splitting up the respondents by state would itself introduce sampling bias, way over sampling low population states and way under sampling high population states. The survey was interested in the opinions of the nation as a whole, so arbitrary binning by states would be a big mistake. You want your sampling procedure to have equal change of returning a response from any random person in the nation. With a sample size of 1000, you’re not going to have much random-induced bias for one location or another, aside from population density, which is fine because the survey is about USA people and not people in sub-USA locations.
I mean, just break up the massive corporations. Capitalism requires seller competition in the marketplace in order to provide an incentive to drive down prices. If there are too few players, they can easily make unspoken agreements to fuck over consumers.
I very much wouldn’t. I’m not interested in the kinds of things a young trophy wife is going to offer. I think being a rich megastar would be bad for my dating game, because it would attract all the wrong people.
The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.
Suddenly trying to convince all my friends and family I’m from France.
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I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.
DST is good actually. Fite me.
What is it about role-playing that’s strictly masculine? Like, why does the group have to be gendered?
Whiter than… Something really white.
Put some soles on these and make thieves wear them instead of throwing them in jail.
If only I could come up with a way to turn a pie into 5 member proportional representation districts…
I’d eat that. I wouldn’t make it, on account of being more effort than just washing your bowl, but I don’t anticipate that being anything unlike just eating a bell pepper after eating cereal.
What’s January?
I would earnestly suggest open season on outdoor cats without a leash and owner present, but something tells me that would be too unpopular to work.
The trees can’t be harmed, if the lorax is armed.
It would make more sense as “every city in US is a third world hellhole” otherwise there’s no irony.
Seahorse, you must have terrabytes of memes saved up and I’m so here for it all.
Shit, okay, but they really should do a limited edition American flag poptart. I would think it was absolutely ridiculous unless they did it ironically, but I bet it could actually taste pretty good.
Probably the first time I’ve ever looked at a presidential lineup and simply hoped the two front-runners fall over dead as soon as possible.