One thing that bothers me is when ppl critique my data as "unscientific" due to sampling bias. First, y'all better not look into a lot of what you think are "scientific" studies Second, there's nothing wrong with sampling bias if you acknowledge limitations and don't extrapolate.
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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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It is interesting how well you have your demographic pegged
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The problem isn't that they are "white cis men etc.". The problem is that you only have answers from people who are motivated enough to give you answers. And you have absolutely no idea how different it is from the general population unless you have an ability to sample the
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general population without this bias. I.e. if you ask people opinion on X and get results, you only get results from people who are actively thinking about X. You don't get responses from people who are just not interested, or maybe never heard, etc. So the problem is that
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