Kasz216 on 10 December 2007
| HappySqurriel said: In university I took a Sociology course in the same semester I took the Statistics course which was required for my math degree. In statistics we were in a section about the sample size you needed, and I was doing a paper in sociology ... The funny thing was that every study I was reading for sociology had a sample size of 10 to 20 people, while my statistics course implied every statistic they gathered required 500+ people to prove the point they were trying to make. |
They were probably a qaulitative studies. Though even quanitative psychology and sociology studies tend to get only a couple hundred and hope for others to copy their study for further corroberation.
