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Society{at}feminism.is.invalid says...
>
> "Mark Borgerson"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.1cb23fed9733a4e5989732{at}news.comcast.giganews.com...
> >
> > A large sample---yes.  Representative of
> > the whole US?   I doubt it, or they would
> > have said so. [...]
>
> Well, Borgerson, look at the demographics
> of the US and erase your doubts by figuring
> what the margin of error is due to leaving
> out the small part of the US population that
> lives outside regions represented by the
> sample that was taken. (Duh.)
>
>
Perhaps you missed the post where I showed that according
to US Census data,  64% of the US population lives outside
of the 75 largest counties represented in the DOJ study.
187 million people is not a "small part of the US population".
(Duh.)


Mark Borgerson




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