On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 08:43 -0700, Steven Walling wrote:
You're trying to make an accurate judgment based on 100k of articles from a 2 million article field? Don't insult our intelligence.
Exactly what is new with taking a sample of the whole to come up with trends in statistics ?
Any concern should be whether 5% of 2 millions is a high enough sample (I would say so), and whether the samples is representative of the whole sample space (all the articles). The second I can't comment on as I do not know what those 100K articles are among other reasons.
KTC