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piskovtoday at 1:31 AM1 replyview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

For example, even 300 really random people is enough to correctly assertain the distribution of population for some measurement (say, some personality feauture).

That’s the basis of all polls and what have you


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gerdesjtoday at 1:39 AM

I think you might be thrashing around 30 samples for a normal distribution and the Central Limit Theorem and accidentally added a zero!

(OK, on rereading, you did link to a WP article about CLT, so 30 it is!)

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