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Mike,There a number of factors to be considered
over and above your (more-or-less simple) question about how to determine sample
size in a survey of the nature of what you're proposing.Probably a more
important factor than setting your sample size to achieve a set sampling error,
is
Be careful on your assumptions in your models and studies!
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Placebo Effect An Illusion, Study Says
By Gina Kolata
New York Times
(Published in the Sacramento Bee, Thursday, May 24, 2001)
In a new report that is being met with a mixture of
Standardized tests and their problems? Here was a
problem with equating the scores between years.
The NY Times had a long front-page article on Monday, May 21:
When a test fails the schools, careers and reputations suffer.
It was about a minor screw-up in standardizing, in 1999. Or, since
the
