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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 88 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the "no" would be close to 5% at a minimum.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

That was an amazing read, thanks!

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oof I didn't know that was a Scott Alexander thing

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that's not how it works. That's not how anything works!

Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.