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Public Opinion Polls, Chicken Soup and Sample Size
Article first published online: 4 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00222a.x
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How to Cite
Nguyen, P. (2005), Public Opinion Polls, Chicken Soup and Sample Size. Teaching Statistics, 27: 89–92. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00222a.x
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- Issue published online: 4 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 4 AUG 2005
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Keywords:
- Teaching;
- Sample;
- Sample size;
- Population
Summary
Cooking and tasting chicken soup in three different pots of very different size serves to demonstrate that it is the absolute sample size that matters the most in determining the accuracy of the findings of the poll, not the relative sample size, i.e. the size of the sample in relation to its population.