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Re:Model S Fire by Zikes on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:32PM (#6497767)
I often see polls of 1K Americans and extrapolating out from there. An example: http://www.webpronews.com/americans-think-cloud-computing-co...

Of course, the refrain I often hear is that as long as you pick the RIGHT 1,000 Americans, it's as good as polling all 319 million.

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Re:Model S Fire by gnaritas on Friday October 04, 2013 @06:14PM (#6498379)
> Of course, the refrain I often hear is that as long as you pick the RIGHT 1,000 Americans, it's as good as polling all 319 million.

If it's a proper random sample, then it's far better than sampling all 319 million because it's 95% accurate with about a 3% margin of error and vastly cheaper and actually practical; you can't poll 319 million people.

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