Yes, I know most of my responders are white cis men between 25-40 who are associated with STEM, vaguely liberal/centrist/libertarian. There's nothing about collecting data from a particular demographic that's unscientific as long as you're upfront about the demographic.
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This comes from an understanding of "science" I find a bit weird; science is not a mystical thing that descends upon your work once you've achieved perfectly random distribution of your sample. Science is just a process of figuring things out! There's lots of ways to do it!
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Just make sure you're upfront about your methodology, where you got your data from, the limitations of what can be directly extrapolated from that data, and try to get familiar with the easy ways you can accidentally misinterpret data despite good intent.
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Your polls are nerd casting? You are casting narrative nets and a certain demographic responds more consistently? There is a lot of art in your science
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Seems like most “professional” studies and surveys use almost exclusively college kids. If anything your sample is probably more diverse than most “real science” stuff.
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When I was at university, it was on occasion said by lecturers that a study was ‘bad’ and implied that it could be disregarded entirely, just because of a sampling limitation. Invariably, the lecturer had a SSSM bias and the findings contradicted their views.
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Similar happened over other minor methodological flaws. A level of scrutiny was applied that would suggest that no social science study could ever tell us anything. Except this scrutiny seemed to be applied highly selectively
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But if youre not collecting ANY data you, admittedly, can "extrapolate" on... Whats the point? *giggles*
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Science is just being curious and then having the patience and honesty to observe. Don’t know why people want to be arrogant and restrictive about it
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