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the amount of 'but your sample has bias' i get any time i faintly breathe about my data makes me wanna delete twitter. imo most people are wrong about when and why sampling bias is bad, and also assigning unfair scrutiny to me vs other published research because of credentialism

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Your sample isn't biased if you report your studies as studies of Aella followers and -adjacents

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sure, but a lot of the time ppl who take my survey have no idea who I am. the vast majority of ppl who took my kink survey had never heard my name before I'm pretty sure

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Nevermind in that case. I honestly thought we were talking about your twitter polls, I didn't know you ran other things with different sampling methods!

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no, twitter polls are fun toys compared to the research I get paid to do, tho tbf ppl seem to complain about sample bias equally as much. I write about my research on my blog

2:11 AM · Dec 27, 2022

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I read one of the posts on sampling and it said most of your population came through posts on "your social media" (Twitter and reddit). Are you saying those are people who don't know you? Or are you referring to the remainder obtained by other means?