Even though most voters say that the case against the former president is “strong,” they don’t want to see him serving jail time

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    1 year ago

    Small sample size is fine when it’s representative of the population. Trying to extract nationwide sentiment, a very diverse thing, off a small size is unlikely to be very representative.

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      1 year ago

      Except the numbers work out, and studies have made very very sweeping generalizations based on much smaller sample sizes of much larger demographics (for example the 1 in 5 myth comes from a study that had less than 100 respondents). This study is a dream compared to those.