On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a statistician, someone else can work out how large a majority > is needed from a sample size of 570 to be confident (at the 95% level, > say?) that a majority of the population as a whole agrees.
If the 570 people are a RANDOM sampling of the underlying population: 307 people (53.5%) If 307 out of 570 people (53.5%) agree with statement X, you can be confident at the 95% level that at least 50% of the underlying population would agree with X. Of course the current sample is not random, and I don't think rights should be apportioned by simple majority either. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
