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Author(s) -
Congalton Athol A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb88107.x
Subject(s) - sample (material) , survey sampling , serendipity , survey research , psychology , physics , sociology , demography , chemistry , applied psychology , chromatography , population , astronomy
Ten? Twenty? Two hundred? How large does a survey sample have to be? A by‐product of a survey among doctors unexpectedly revealed that aiming for a large sample may distort rather than improve the survey results and that attempts to obtain a large survey sample must be tempered with caution.