Segregated workplaces

[diwana]

Re: Segregated workplaces

@ravage

A critical mind without any substance. You have been revolving around sample size yet cannot produce ANY evidence for saying that the total population should mean that the sample size should be bigger except for making the results more precise (while 82-88% doesnt change how we would interpret the results AT ALL, therefore no value in being more precise). Meanwhile I have given you the following:

a) An online calculator that given the quality aimed for in the study (a quality generally seen as acceptable in the statistics community) gives a sample size smaller than what was used in the study
b) An exhaustive list of national US polls, where the sample size was usually smaller than what was used in the Pew study despite the US population being about twice that of Pakistan
c) Extensive quotes from standard statistics books that explicitly reject the idea that total population influences statistics interpreted from the sample beyond a certain point already overcome by the relatively large sample size.

All of these demonstrate that this is a standard poll, completely in keeping with both mathematical soundness and the standards in the polling community worldwide. You have meanwhile given me “I dont believe it because look the population is so big”. Total bollocks.

No, your reading of the red part of my sentence illustrates your struggles with the english language.

Oh so the article has the same exact problem of ignoring the large total population. The article in question ofcourse quoting from statistics textbooks. So I return to the fact that you basically are struggling with a branch of mathematics, as opposed to with this specific poll.

Going back and forth now?

I thought we were done when you said “your results won’t mean much”.

180 million or over 6.5 billion population, the results should be accepted or questioned by same analogy, right? Why do you not think the result of study should not have same ‘high enough variance’ in 180 million population? Any ‘mathematical’ answer?

Just do me a favor, place this ‘study’ you qouted and the one I asked you on world population side by side.

Then give me ONE mathematical reason why you would refute world population based study and not the one you posted;

and why would you say the "results won’t mean much" or “high variance” in one and not the other?

Yep!I am struggling with YOUR English there my friend.

I asked you to give me answer yes and no. Remember?

You just don’t want to give up and say you are trying to impose result of a flawed study by design. It won’t do any good but to make you look like someone accpeting ANYHING in the name of mathematical gimmick!

Big claims like headlines or news need better studies.