Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate, censorship

Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by tzs on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:13PM (#21265606)

70 people polled out of a population of 4700 would have a 12% margin of error at a 95% confidence level, if it was a random sample. 500 people polled lowers that to about 4%.

If Blizzard were a lot bigger--say 100k people, a random poll of 70 would still be 12% and a random poll of 500 would still be 4%. You can play around with the numbers here [1].

The margin of error on a poll, if the population is large compared to the sample size, depends mostly only on the absolute sample size, not on how big a fraction of the population is sampled.

The flaws in this poll are how the sample was selected, not the size of the sample. It's not a random sample.

[1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/margin-of-error-calculator/

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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by outworlder on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:28PM (#21265721)

> if it was a random sample

And here lies the problem. How do we know that those people were not ahem, "selected"?

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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by darawk on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:54PM (#21265928)

Well they almost certainly weren't selected. But there might be latent correlational factors that cause HK views to correlate with blind-membership.

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Re:Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate... by vonmoltke on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:42PM (#21266858)

They would still need to be willing to answer the survey. I have ignored plenty of Blind polls/surveys in my time there.

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