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Re:Day Trading for a Living? by teawrecks on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:08PM (#20941710)
Making an assumption about the population based on a small non-random sample is usually the belief that needs to be justified by evidence.
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Re:Day Trading for a Living? by Retric on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:24PM (#20943751)
20,000 people is not a small sample. Sampling bias is still an issue with large populations, but generally significantly less important.
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