[WikiEN-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia Community

[John Lee]

On 10/10/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> "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.
>
> Actually a 5% sample is large enough, if the numbers involved are large
> enough.


Don't forget that political pollsters frequently draw conclusions about the
opinions of millions of people based on 1,000 responses from a sample of
people who have land lines.

Johnleemk