Study: What Kind of Voter Is Most Susceptible When Pols Pile It High and Deep?

[Kinser79]

(05-20-2016, 04:23 PM)Odin Wrote:

(05-20-2016, 08:53 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: A sample size of 196 is not indicative of anything.  The size of the sample is far too small.  They may have only found a couple dozen extremely stupid people.  This needs to be replicated with a much larger sample size.

Are you implying it won't? Often a smaller study is done to see if a full study is worth doing.

Not at all. There seems to be no limit to what universities will waste money on these days. I'm just saying that it doesn't mean a thing unless they have a relatively diverse sample size that is at least 10 times larger. One has to account for drawing a couple dozen incredibly stupid people in survey style 'experiments' of this nature. Surely you can see that having just 10 such persons can swing the findings in a wrong direction far more than a standard deviation.