• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I understand that. However I didn’t choose Boulder, Colorado to ask a national question - I specifically posed a question irrelevant to location because the question being asked is not important to what I was attempting to illustrate.

    I chose Boulder for its population size, which is proportionally the same as what the NYT has done. If the survey were completed by 50/100,000 of voters, the sample size would be 0.0005%, which in my opinion is much better than 0.00001%.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      However I didn’t choose Boulder, Colorado to ask a national question

      It’s in the nation. I don’t see why you wouldn’t.

      I chose Boulder for its population size, which is proportionally the same as what the NYT has done.

      Pulling a sample is going to get you results consistent with the national average when the people you select are representative of the average