cv_acr
Well-Known Member
Any pollster will tell you that with a smaller number of respondents, the margin of error of actually being *accurately* representative of the larger population is very high.
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Any pollster will tell you that with a smaller number of respondents, the margin of error of actually being *accurately* representative of the larger population is very high.
HUH???
Something I was not paying attention to is the fact that NOT MODELING AN ERA appears to be the one of the most popular eras!
Again, HUH?!?
Less people polled means greater margins of error.
let’s say there are 1 million MRRs in the world. You’ve polled about 30. That is a fraction of a fraction; making the poll pretty isolated.
But, you are basically polling the more active members of this one site. Making your poll very accurate under that specific parameter. The results are interesting non the less.
Keep on polling, pollster. I love a good set of data points.
If you ask 1000 random people at a train show, and 20 people from the same N-Track club, you may get VERY different results.
The smaller the poll, the less accurate it may be of representing the "whole". That's "margin of error".
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Any pollster will tell you that with a smaller number of respondents, the margin of error of actually being *accurately* representative of the larger population is very high.
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NP2626
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HUH???
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NP2626
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Something I was not paying attention to is the fact that NOT MODELING AN ERA appears to be the one of the most popular eras!
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migalyto
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Means it's within the allowed 2-3% error. But what that 2-3% is 2-3% of, is only known to a handful. How big the hand is, that is what the handful measures...............................................
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NP2626
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Again, HUH?!?
Robots_walk_the_earth
Active Member
Haha, well put.
Robots_walk_the_earth
Active Member
I’ll take a stab at it...
Less people polled means greater margins of error.
let’s say there are 1 million MRRs in the world. You’ve polled about 30. That is a fraction of a fraction; making the poll pretty isolated.
But, you are basically polling the more active members of this one site. Making your poll very accurate under that specific parameter. The results are interesting non the less.
Keep on polling, pollster. I love a good set of data points.
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NP2626
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Finally someone explained it to me in a way I can understand! Thanks Robots!!
But....but. That's what I said.
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NP2626
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Toot, I'm guessing you sure did; however, I found what you said to be slightly confusing! I'm sure this is all me and as the King Crimson song goes, "Confusion will be my epitaph"!
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Déjà vu, as CSN&Y once sang.
Robots_walk_the_earth
Active Member
Must have been the accent?
Burlington Bob
Well-Known Member
My 2 cents. I will be modeling the CB&Q around 1962 in central Illinois. Plenty of Blackbirds and Greybacks to see, and best of all, before Lou Menk had his way!
And I was upside down, too.
cv_acr
Well-Known Member
If you ask 1000 random people at a train show, and 20 people from the same N-Track club, you may get VERY different results.
The smaller the poll, the less accurate it may be of representing the "whole". That's "margin of error".
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NP2626
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I have always understood that a small number of people responding to a Poll meant that the accuracy of the poll might be inaccurate.
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