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Representative samples may be overrated. A replication of 27 survey experiments (n = 101,745) finds that convenience samples overwhelmingly produce similar findings to representative samples. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10 In 0 of 393 analyses were the effects in opposite directions.

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ty for everyone tagging me this is confirming my biases and i hope it's also accurate

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Might be interesting to: Find a statistic that has been well-studied using (as much as possible) representative samples, such as number of partners, practices, etc. Then do an online poll. See how much agreement you get.

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I do this constantly in my surveys to check my deviation from general pop

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