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Old 02-01-2025, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Snowman View Post
Fun fact. When a poll is neck and neck the entire way, and then suddenly breaks 10+ straight votes in one direction after a sample size of 160 votes, it usually means those votes were recruited. Not that it matters, but that would be pretty funny to me if someone here is taking the results so seriously that they felt the urge to recruit. Lol
Haha, that would indeed be pathetic. And yet is seems somewhat plausible.

I remember from stats class that a sample size of 160 in statistics is generally considered a good, medium-sized sample for most research studies. Funny that as soon as we got to that number, something went haywire.
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