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Re:Model S Fire by mikeash on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:34PM (#6497783)
It's counterintuitive, but the sample size needed for a good measurement doesn't much depend on the size of the overall population. What matters is getting a properly random sample. This is where pollsters fall down, because their "random" sample tends to be heavily biased toward the sort of person who has a landline telephone and doesn't hang up on pollsters.

Polling 10,000 Americans would be vast overkill, in any case.

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