Armed Forces of Ukraine soldier with a Javelin. Mil.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Talia Mullin / Original to ScheerPost On Aug. 4, 2023, CNN released a poll, conducted with Social Scie…
I mean, this is typical of statistics. The random sampling here means there’s a 95% chance the survey result will be within 3.7% of the actual values. According to statistics principles, the minimum sample size is 25 to be able to generate statistically significant data. Granted, the smaller the sample size, the greater the margin of error.
A poll of 1,300 is hardly representative of anything.
I mean, this is typical of statistics. The random sampling here means there’s a 95% chance the survey result will be within 3.7% of the actual values. According to statistics principles, the minimum sample size is 25 to be able to generate statistically significant data. Granted, the smaller the sample size, the greater the margin of error.