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Re:Google Workers Fume Over Executives’ Payouts After Sexual... by nostrademons on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:23PM (#18316974)
FWIW, if you have a sample size of 100 out of a population of 85000 and observe 60% of your coworkers care, there's a 95% confidence level that the true number of people who care will be within 50-70%. There's a 99% confidence that it'll be within 47.5-72.5%.

https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

"80% of Googlers don't really care" would be an extreme outlier, statistically.

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Re:Google Workers Fume Over Executives’ Payouts After Sexual... by jefftk on Sunday October 28, 2018 @12:13AM (#18319152)
Only if your sample is random, and my sample is mostly the Google Cambridge office.
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