• crappingpants@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “The sample size of this poll is 1231 adults, of whom 750 were interviewed face to face in the West Bank and 481 in the Gaza Strip in 121 randomly selected locations.” So 72% of only 1231 people is an accurate representation for the opinion of over 5.4 million people?

    https://pcpsr.org/en/node/963

    • yarr@feddit.nl
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      10 months ago

      How do you think polling works? If you had to “ask everyone” to have data, we wouldn’t have any…