I mean, yeah, 1000 people is enough assuming there’s no sampling bias. But if you’ve got sampling bias, increasing the sampling size won’t actually help you. The issue you’re talking about is unrelated to how many people you talk to.

Your own suggestion of splitting up the respondents by state would itself introduce sampling bias, way over sampling low population states and way under sampling high population states. The survey was interested in the opinions of the nation as a whole, so arbitrary binning by states would be a big mistake. You want your sampling procedure to have equal change of returning a response from any random person in the nation. With a sample size of 1000, you’re not going to have much random-induced bias for one location or another, aside from population density, which is fine because the survey is about USA people and not people in sub-USA locations.

The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.

Suddenly trying to convince all my friends and family I’m from France.

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Lol, I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted for speculating about improving weights and measures in a thread about wanting better weights and measures.

I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.

DST is good actually. Fite me.

A million percent AI.

I just fucking tried to look up cholegolasterol.

Check out Ecosia. It’s the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.

Hi Bob!

I think that’s the funniest part. Like, as far as I know, the regular Assistant uses the same approach to handling data that buzzword AI things use, a neural network. But branding (and potentially internal company politics) is weird, so they decided to kneecap Assistant in order to make Gemini look better on release.

Hi, Bob!

I’d eat that. I wouldn’t make it, on account of being more effort than just washing your bowl, but I don’t anticipate that being anything unlike just eating a bell pepper after eating cereal.

For anyone that might be confused, if you want to protect individual rights to privacy and medical autonomy (the amendment goes beyond just abortions, it explicitly protects individual rights in multiple healthcare areas) then you should vote yes. Kinda fucked that in the land of the free we need to explicitly codify our freedoms, but whatever.

Vote yes.

What kind of stuff do you like?

My very limited understanding of US and Ohio law tells me this lawsuit is a joke and will get thrown out. It would be ridiculous for a constitutional amendment to have to specifically identify all the laws it’s going to impact.

What’s the proposal like this year? The last time they tried to legalize it they wanted to install a state sanctioned monopoly and a lot of people I know who loved weed voted against legalization for that reason.

You really shouldn’t be able to donate money to a campaign that doesn’t directly apply to your permanent residence.

It’s way more complicated than that.

The legislature is historically responsible for 70% of the attempts to amend the constitution and they’re trying to make it even harder for citizen lead initiatives to happen. Only about 25% of citizen amendments pass when they get put to a vote, a total of 19 successes in all of Ohio history. We’re not drowning in direct democracy here.

The real problem is that the proposed signature requirement is so onerous basically no one will ever be able to get anything on the ballot ever again.

Add to this that the August ballot measure is 100% a retaliation for the upcoming November ballot measure, and yeah, it’s total bullshit. We’re not even supposed to have August elections anymore and the secretary of state basically changed the rules just for this.