sampling bias
sampling bias
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Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the "no" would be close to 5% at a minimum.
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Sounds like the lizardman constant
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That was an amazing read, thanks!
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Oof I didn't know that was a Scott Alexander thing
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Why oof? O.o
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Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.
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0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.
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that's not how it works. That's not how anything works!
Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.
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Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.
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It's also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.
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