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Mar 15, 2017
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swingcat
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That's for academic-level standards. If you are doing this just for your own
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
fattycoug
3/15/17 1:55pm
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