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squeakycat , to news in ‘An epidemic of loneliness’: How the pandemic changed life for aging adults

It’s such a tragedy that we humans are surrounded by so many people yet have to endure such isolation. Just a few years ago I was practically completely isolated. I feel very fortunate to have sprouted and made a community. To have continued down that path of loneliness would have been incredibly hard.

MisterNeon , to news in ‘An epidemic of loneliness’: How the pandemic changed life for aging adults
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7000 doesn’t sound like a large enough sample size to get accurate results.

Telodzrum ,

You’re just plain wrong. A sample of 7,000 against the whole US adult population only provides a margin of error of just over 1%. Hell, you need the representative sample to drop to 350 panel members to get the MOE up to 5%. If you’re going to post comments about experimental design, maybe understand basic statistics and statistical modeling before type something dumb.

otp ,

What would sound large enough to you?

MisterNeon ,
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Tens of thousands.

otp ,

Why so many?

MisterNeon ,
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The age of the American population 55+ is over 80,000,000 so 0.0000875% of that population seems small to be drawing conclusions from.

Mathprogrammer1 ,

That’s not how statistics works. If that were true, you could never test dice for fairness because there are theoretically an infinite number of rolls that could happen

MisterNeon ,
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Well I don’t generate statistics normally and we’re not dealing with something as reliable as dice roles. I stated the sample size “sounds” small and got downvoted into a pit. I’m going to remain skeptical about this research.

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