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Old 05-01-2009, 11:46 AM   #23
peter12
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Originally Posted by Mike F View Post
Not passing judgment of the survey itself, but if you don't like research done on college students, you can throw out virtually every social science finding in the last century.

And 322 subjects, even from one university, isn't an unacceptable sample size in my experience.
Reliable data with confidence levels of 95% requires at least a sample of 1000. In fact, most academia requires confidence levels of 99%, requiring a sample size of 1500+. This sample means nothing.
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