Sample quality is relative. Can always say "you should studied population X" & no matter how good the sample, it's now biased wrt that pop.
@seanjtaylor Yes, not first study to oversell but double whammy because overgeneralized framing aligns with PR needs of parent corporation.
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@zeynep I'm glad to see lots of good researchers presenting critical perspective on the work. Just as important as the work itself. -
@seanjtaylor I want researchers to continue to work on all this essential stuff. But parent corp should explicitly give them independence.
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@zeynep@seanjtaylor incidentally, your example of election polls isn't one of random sampling--N=people home & willing to answer phone, etc -
@zeynep@seanjtaylor truly random sampling hard. Best recent example that comes to mind ironically mood contagion experiment. - Show replies
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