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Public Opinion Polls, Chicken Soup and Sample Size
Author(s) -
Nguyen Phung
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00222a.x
Subject(s) - sample size determination , sample (material) , statistics , population size , population , mathematics , econometrics , psychology , demography , chemistry , chromatography , sociology
Summary Cooking and tasting chicken soup in three different pots of very different size serves to demonstrate that it is the absolute sample size that matters the most in determining the accuracy of the findings of the poll, not the relative sample size, i.e. the size of the sample in relation to its population.