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Re:Let's properly analyze an AI article for once by foma-roje on Saturday August 09, 2025 @02:51AM (#44844584)
> You certainly don't need to sample more than 25% of any population in order to draw statistical information from it.

Certainly? Now, who is ranting?

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Re:Let's properly analyze an AI article for once by brabel on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:53AM (#44844809)
It’s a basic property of statistics. You need an extremely varied population to need a sample of 25%, and almost no human population is that varied in practice. Humans are actually very uniform in fact.
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Re:Let's properly analyze an AI article for once by integralid on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:27AM (#44852971)
What if the group is 8 people
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