[blml] Chicago Casebook Posted

[Eric Landau]

At 04:44 PM 10/25/06, Todd wrote:

>Marvin French wrote:
> > A course in statistics isn't needed to understand that small sample
> > sizes have very little significance.  Player polls should never have
> > been instituted and should be abolished.
>
>ACs, frequently being small in size, constitute a small
>sample of opinion.  And sometimes opinion of a too strong
>caliber.  If we can't trust a poll of players for their
>judgement, why should we trust the AC?  What process do you
>suggest replace player polls?

I don't think it really has anything to do with "trust".  Rather, the 
justification for polling players is exactly what Marv says: "small 
sample sizes have very little significance".  A course in statistics 
isn't needed to understand that a sample of the AC members' plus the 
consulted players' opinions will be larger, hence more statistically 
significant, than a sample of the AC members' opinions alone.


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