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Re:Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of emplo... by Mattasher on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:27AM (#22265317)
Small sample sizes are much more likely to produce extreme results, because it's easier to get an extreme result by chance. In the US, the highest rates of cancer occur in the most rural counties. So do the lowest rates of cancer.

Think about it like grabbing from a giant bag of M&M's. The fewer you select, the higher the chances your results will be skewed towards one color.

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Re:Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of emplo... by PeterStuer on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:24PM (#22272277)
But we are not sub-sampling here. We are comparing the whole of the Netherlands with the whole of the US right?

We might take a big bag of M&M's and a smaller bag of M&M's, and count both of their contents, and find that the small bag has proportionally significantly more blue M&M's than the bigger bag.

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