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- From: jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen)
- Subject: Re: Before Buying Japanese.
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- In article <1993Jan22.220535.10804@leland.Stanford.EDU> tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >cause their results to be wildly different from the results of the
- >whole group. this is a critical issue in the reliability of CR's
- >ratings. if the sample size is too small, it's not going to be much
- >more reliable than asking one or two people. the information they
- >give may still be useful, but it will be lacking in authoritativeness.
- >
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- How can you say their sample size is too small. Do you know what
- tolerances they are willing to accept?
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- john
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