@snugghash It is challenging, but I think people still do it. I'd point to the gun debate to show people trying to do it, and people not accepting the results.
Unrelated: I've noticed a particular type of informal fallacy, which is kind of the same as the sample size fallacy and kind of its direct opposite. Does anyone know if it has a name?
The fallacy is people who insist that surveys must be huge to be representative of a large population. e.g. they dismiss surveys because they aren't around 1% of the population, which when you are asking about political views is both infeasible and simply unnecessary.
They don't believe (or just don't consider) that a sample of around 1000 people can get within a few percent of the right figure, 95% of the time.
They get fixed on the total population of the country, but that isn't important.
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