On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 17:26:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Independent on the topic at hand - wondering what your
reasoning is. I just took a look and there are 205 votes. Not a
large number, but quite a lot more than any voting we saw in
the past (when consensus was proclaimed after like 15 votes
:o)). Intuitively I agree with you, but I wonder at what point
numbers become large enough to capture meaning. Thx! -- Andrei
Time for a proportion Z-test! Assuming that this poll represents
a simple random sample (which it almost certainly doesn't, but
it's the best we have), let's test the claim that at least 50% of
the community dislikes the SDL format.
For reference, I'm using the poll data at the time of this post:
124 for, 145 against.
According to my calculations, at a 95% confidence level, there's
not sufficient evidence to reject the hypothesis that at least
50% of the community dislikes the new format.
However, FWIW, we can say with very high confidence that at least
25% of the whole community likes the new format.
