| crissindahouse said: would be great to know how they got the data. i remember a funny story when a former math prof of mine told us about a survery he read in a magazine about universities. it was about a lot of different things. then he saw something about the university (which said it is bad there) and he thought it can't be true because he was on some universities and in his opinion this university was the best of all for that. he then called the magazine to ask how they did the survey and they said they asked students how they think about that. when he asked how many they asked on this university the magazine responded "we asked two students" looooool, so maybe one of both said "it's bad" haha |
Moral of story: Don't trust any study results that don't disclose the sample size and population polled.
