Comment on sampling bias

finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like the lizardman constant

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oof I didn’t know that was a Scott Alexander thing

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why oof? O.o

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  • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was an amazing read, thanks!

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.

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    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works!

      Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

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      • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

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• ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.

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