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7. Disproportionate sampling typically gets addressed by weighting
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 06:16 PM
Mar 2024

The trick lies in how the weights are distributed . That's when undersampling a demographic bites the poll weighting models in the butt, as a too-low number can have larger-than-expected errors that magnify when weighting multipliers are applied. This in turn leads to surprising clickbaity results for particular subgroups of the surveyed population.

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