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  • isyasad@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Though it’s unintuitive, the validity of a sample size has more to do with its literal value/size than how it compares to the total population.
    If you have a sample size of 1000, your predictions about the 2000th individual in a population of 2000 will be just as accurate as your prediction about the 10,000,000th individual in a population of 10,000,000.
    A bigger sample size is better, but it has almost nothing to do with the total population, it doesn’t matter if it’s 1.2 billion or 100 trillion.