• SuperSleuth@lemm.ee
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    The poll of 1,165 adults was conducted Aug. 10-14 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population.

    That shouldn’t be at the end of the article after I had to click on a separate article. Poor journalistic practices.

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      If your point is that it’s a small sample, you’re in for a surprise - that’s about all you need to estimate something within about 3% for the US population. If they’re doing stratification and such it might be even more efficient than that.

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        Sample size isn’t the problem, claiming 0.0000035% applies to the other 99.9999965% is one however. All they need to do is add ‘surveyed’ after Americans and there would be no problem.