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Originally posted by Qwerty1234
N='100 is a good sample size representation of the population. Any statistical book will tell you that. The article itself contains more information on the sample size.
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i've taken a statistics course and no, that's not a good size representation at all. maybe it is in the case of 1,000 people, but this is 300,000,000, and a small metropolitan area could be as few as 50,000 people. 50,000 is less than .2%. that doesn't work.
and the problem here is also that the environments of the united states are vastly different based on location. a single area would cover only a small part of the midwest. a better sample would take some from many more locations. the sample doesn't fairly represent the entire population.
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How about this, the FBI has determined that 1 in 4 rape claims are false?
http://heinonline.org/HOL/PDFsearcha...=.pdf&nocover=
(You might need a student account to view that article)
Yet people won't even allow someone ACCUSED of rape a trial before labelling him a rapist. How is that justice? How is that fair?
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i'm skeptical of these statistics. rape is a very difficult crime to prove and investigate, so i think the majority of rape cases would end up not being proven false nor true, and with that kind of uncertainty in the data i don't think we should take these statistics at face value.