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08-21-2010 1:04 PM
Reply to: Message 394 by crashfrog
08-20-2010 8:21 PM


Crashfrog says:
Ringo says:
They're twelve times more likely to
Or twelve times less likely to. I can make up math, too!
Statistically, a sample size of 12 is sqrt(12) better than a sample size of 1. Or, if you wish to be even more pedantic, sqrt(n-1) for some of these sorts of samples. What we are talking about here is Error and the standard deviation of a sample mean.
The Standard Error for 12 is equal to ~0.2887 the size of a sample of 1.
I'd be voting for the smaller error, myself. Ringo is far closer to the point.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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