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minus-square@finitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish64•15 hours agoTechnically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the “no” would be close to 5% at a minimum.
minus-square@marcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•15 hours agoYep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.
minus-squareHossenfefferlinkfedilinkEnglish11•14 hours ago0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.
minus-square@where_am_i@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish5•9 hours agothat’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works! Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.
minus-squareHossenfefferlinkfedilinkEnglish8•9 hours agoPffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.
Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the “no” would be close to 5% at a minimum.
Sounds like the lizardman constant
That was an amazing read, thanks!
Oof I didn’t know that was a Scott Alexander thing
Why oof? O.o
Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.
0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.
that’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works!
Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.
Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.