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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by fooker on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:26PM (#21265214)
1% isn't that small a sample here, this is rather significant statistically.
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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by wutbrodo on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:57PM (#21265473)
Not even close. 1% of the company, selected not randomly, not only by who chooses to use Blind, but by employees on Blind who choose to respond to the survey about this issue.
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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by msbarnett on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:26PM (#21265699)
The 1% is a self-selecting sample (people who signed up for Blind, and voluntarily chose to respond to the survey after seeing it), not a random sample. That leads to all kinds of bias issues that make it a pretty poor sample to extrapolate from.
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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by seattle_spring on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:37PM (#21265320)
Except Blind self-selects only the most disgruntled of employees.
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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by fooker on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:46PM (#21266571)
Wouldn't employees against this be equally disgruntled?
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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by uoaei on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:34PM (#21265293)
Surveys always have a self-selection bias. It's entirely possible people were worried about retaliation if they said anything different.
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