That's for academic-level standards. If you are doing this just for your own

Mar 15, 2017
1:53:24pm

swingcat All-American

personal information, you could probably get by with fewer. Just keep in mind that the results will be less accurate/reliable as you reduce the sample size.

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I need help figuring out a decent sample size

fattycoug

3/15/17 1:43pm

We need to know the population number to answer by a percentage.

swingcat

3/15/17 1:45pm

let's say 1000

fattycoug

3/15/17 1:47pm

Yeah. Then usually 60 randomly selected samples will do the trick.

swingcat

3/15/17 1:49pm

That's for academic-level standards. If you are doing this just for your own

swingcat

3/15/17 1:53pm

thanks. yeah, i get the concept of lower is less accurate. just want a good

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