[Theforum] quick survey feedback

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> From: "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at compaq.com>
[...]
> To be an 'anal techie stat guy' for a minute, I'm not sure
> 'self-selected' surveys like this one count as "random samples".  So
> the question of statistical significance [strictly speaking] isn't
> 100% applicable.

figured as much, given how we've pushed it to people... and there's 
nothing wrong with that answer, that's part of why i asked...

[...] 
> Now that that's out of my system .....  I think we're using this for
> 'rough directional purposes' rather than generating 'hard' numbers
> ..... sooooooooo
> 
> .... most stat folks are willing to work with any dataset > 30  ...
> 'cuz that's 'pretty much' a good ballpark for when the law of large
> numbers and normal approximations kick in ...
[...]

so, 42 people, then?