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mcc

"A recent study performed on the University of Toronto campus with participants selected by responding to a flier offering $5 for participation, revealed that 92% of all Canadians are students at University of Toronto…"

(This is a joke; I suspect sociologists have some way of correcting for this already)

(EDIT: Note I am not saying I believe the way sociologists have of correcting for it *works*.)

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Jason Petersen (he)

@mcc uh IIRC this is a “joke but not really” in psychology and social sciences.

The joke is “add ‘among mostly 18–22yos with the social status to be in college’ to every psychology paper”

keithzg
@mcc The important thing is to try a number of different "corrections" until you find it creates a statistically significant result you can publish
Sven :8bit_mario2:

@mcc 98% of people say that they enjoy responding to surveys. 😉

red0ran

@mcc yeah, quota sampling and population weights. Standard for pretty much anything where generalizable findings are the aim.

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