Our Epidemiology professor said there must be about 1500 data points for a sample to be considered representative of the population (based on a number of statistical factors that I really do not feel the desire to go in to)
Even for populations smaller than the US (much less most of the First World countries), that number would be considered much too small to be taken without footnotes.
Even for populations smaller than the US (much less most of the First World countries), that number would be considered much too small to be taken without footnotes.
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/Scientific Findings: Video games may hinder learning for boys
- 16/03/2010 07:48:18 PM
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Hah. Not a very convincing sample size there.
- 16/03/2010 11:54:44 PM
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too true.
- 17/03/2010 02:00:38 AM
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Actually an N=30 is sufficient to produce a normal curve and minimize error.
- 03/04/2010 05:26:27 AM
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And anyway, any null hypothesis can be rejected with a large enough sample size.
- 10/04/2010 03:49:41 AM
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what? you mean if I don't do my scholastic work, my academic progress will diminsh?
- 17/03/2010 01:47:51 AM
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Re: /Scientific Findings: Video games may hinder learning for boys
- 18/03/2010 01:37:19 PM
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The words "video game" can be replaced by anything with the same result.
- 19/03/2010 05:54:51 AM
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+1 for misspelling the phrase per se. Apparently Yahoo has now corrected that error. *NM*
- 21/03/2010 09:23:04 PM
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