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Originally Posted by dippin
As far as sample sizes go, 2000 families is more than enough to be representative of the country if the sampling procedure was done correctly, which I assume it was, given all the peer reviews.
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I would think anyone who had a basic understanding of statistics, or statistical significance, or p-values ought to know this. Then again, even if they did.. I'd have to go back to my post above..
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Originally Posted by Jinn
...but I've unfortunately concluded (after repeated attempts at sharing the available data) that they are aware of the data, but still believe their opinion to be of greater value because they formed it themselves.
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