Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal

Re:Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:13PM (#31658122)

> Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can't easily be seen as honest

The margin of error of a sample of a given size does not depend on the size of the universe from which the same is drawn; a sample size of 100 gives a too big of an MoE to support a claim of “less than 5%” at typically acceptable levels of confidence, but the size of the universe of accounts is irrelevant to it.

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Re:Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal by dllthomas on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:54PM (#31661006)

> is irrelevant to it

... for plausibly relevant company sizes. It doesn't matter if your universe is large vs very large vs enormous.

It does matter if the size of your universe is close to the size of your sample.

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