• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Yes we are talking about ddg which has roughly 100 million users and put out a poll to which 175k said they didnt want AI.

    • Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      What’s neat about an open poll like the one they ran is that it includes most of the people who care about weighing in. Maybe you can read an AI summary about statistically relevant sample sizes? It might be more useful to learn about the math, or to skip the summary and find a useful website, like this calculator from Qualtrics that will show you that a sample size of 175,000 is more than 10 times what you’d need to achieve a roughly 99% level of confidence with a 1% margin of error.

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        1 day ago

        Yes that is a good sample size but its biased by the people weighing in caring most about the issue. If it was 175000 users sampled randomly from the DDG user base then yes it would be a good predictor but it wasnt.

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          21 hours ago

          You’re constantly arguing that the sample is so strongly skewed against your position that the proportion of people who want AI is over 4 times (!) as much as in the sample. “Everyone” is an exaggeration, but the point remains. If you believe the sample is that skewed, then you have to provide evidence.