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Originally Posted by ConsoleMaster
RlS, Statistics can be misleading when given the population density of 2 billion Chinese men and 1000 asian men.
1,000/2,000,000,000 is like almost 0.000005 or 0.0005 % of Asia population. I find that very amusing.
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I didn't understand your first sentence but, given the second, I take it you don't think a sample of 1000 is very representative of a
sample space of 2,000,000,000. However, the fact of the matter is that 1000 samples is enough to represent the height of a population of 2,000,000,000 to within a reasonable degree. That's why statistics is such a powerful tool. Statistics are only misleading because it is practiced by people, like yourself, who don't understand it...