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Old 03-04-2002, 11:55 AM   #16
Barry the Sprout
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Join Date: October 19, 2001
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quote:
Originally posted by Epona:


I hate generalisations. I don't think her survey was very sound, statistically speaking. She should have had a far wider data pool before making any statistical statement on her findings. I think perhaps a randomly generated sample of say, 3000 men? [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]



If she takes a sample of 1024 she will be 97% likely to be able to construct a confidence interval of 95% showing whether or not men cheat. (I think, its been a while since I did Stats properly)

There... wasn't that interesting...
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