2017-07-27 8:57 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch>: > PS: you do illustrate an interesting point wrt the research we are > discussing here, one would expect an unbiased sample of OSM contributors > of size 15 to contain zero non-male and zero HOT members obviously the > composition of the interviewees was rather different.
A uniform random sample is not really relevant in small-numbers sociological research. This is "snowball sampling" which is a very problematic form of sampling, but one thing it definitely does not claim is to be a balanced random sample. A social researcher using snowball sampling to find a small number of interviewees knows full well they aren't gathering a statistically random sample, and one hopes that this researcher tried to find a diversity of viewpoints for his interviews (I don't know). He could, for example, have deliberately designed his sample to have almost-equal numbers of men and women. Best Dan _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
