RE: ID cards - What wasn't mentioned about the results of the consultation exercise

["Peter Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Owen Lewis said:
>
> Could you give an example of that? E.g. Population is 75,000. Sample
> size is 2,500. Sqrt of sample is 50. So forecast accuracy is?

If the population is approximately evenly split, the sample mean will
"probably" be within 2% of the population mean.

The exact meaning of the word "probably" in this context is not
straightforward, though.

And when
> sample is the same but the population is 750,000,000?

It doesn't matter what the population size is.


-- 
Pete Mitchell




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