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0 pointsclarky0711y ago0 comments

as noted elsewhere, apple actually employs over 90,000 people. it's less significant in that scope.

Also, while I have no doubt his experience sucked, he was also in customer service as opposed to being a developer/engineer. I suspect those areas differ somewhat. (Not suggesting it's ok at all, just that it may not be completely representative of the entire company)

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vacri11y ago· 1 in thread

My point is that the parent considered a sample of 100 to be too small for a population of 5000. Statistically speaking, it's a decent sample size.

ianamartin11y ago

To mikeash and vacri,

A sample size of 100 is equally meaningless for 500 or 5 billion if the sample is skewed--which it definitely is in this case.

mikeash11y ago

Actually, the size of the population as a whole is nearly irrelevant when considering the significance of a particular sample size. 100 people has just about the same significance for a population of 1000 as it does for a population of 1 billion.

That said, since the people he met certainly weren't randomly selected, it'll be a heavily biased sample.

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