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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: Before Buying Japanese.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.054636.26399@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan22.142044.20423@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan22.220535.10804@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan22.234608.11303@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 05:46:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.234608.11303@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen) writes:
- >How can you say their sample size is too small. Do you know what
- >tolerances they are willing to accept?
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- i didn't say that it was. i was only responding to your question
- about the significance of the sample size. i don't know what
- sample size CR uses, and i offered no judgments as to the reliability
- of the sample size chosen by CR. (i did express some doubt about
- whether the survey responses are truly valid, which is another matter.)
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- -teddy
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