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Old 05-07-2007   #65 (Post Link)
alfaredthegreat
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Re: 159 / Brera Experiences

Originally Posted by Kevin Slegg View Post
Errhhh cos its quite common for comparatively small samples to be extrapolated as an indication of the whole. For example, polls as to what political party people are going to vote for may only have surveyed a thousand people - this is still representative of the millions who will vote.
That thousand people will have been selected carefully, using demographics by statisticians. This is a highly academic discipline.

Originally Posted by Kevin Slegg View Post
The important thing is to get a good cross section - where is the evidence that the sample is skewed? How many 159/Brera owners are there on this site??? 46 is, in my opinion, a high number.
Well, I know that I sought out this list because of the problems I was having with my car....
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