FlowVoid

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[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's a pretty typical size for political polls.

A sample size of 1000 means that the results are very likely within 3% of the entire population.

If you instead survey 10,000 people, your results will very likely be within 1% of the entire population.

It's diminishing returns. For most pollsters, an extra 2% accuracy is not worth ten times the effort.

It's similar to coin flip math. Getting 6+ heads on 10 flips is not hard. Getting 60+ heads on 100 flips is way harder. Getting 600+ heads on 1000 flips? No way. In fact, even getting 530+ heads on 1000 flips is very unlikely

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's silly to judge a polling outfit solely on the politics of their CEO.

FWIW, 538 gave Harris a "B" grade with 83% accuracy in 2020. If anything, Harris seemed to overestimate Biden's support (eg they predicted Trump would lose FL and NC).

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Your phone was most likely made in China. And unlike Lemmy, that most likely means that some of your money was sent to China. But it still doesn't mean that using a phone demonstrates support of the CCP.

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The options will continue to be available through registry keys.

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

So it's like Stellaris with New Horizons/ New Civilizations

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

People keeping an eye on recent events at Reddit might be reconsidering that set price...

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Make a ton of money, or depending on how things go, lose a ton of money.

[–] FlowVoid@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Immunity" was not the issue.

The issue was that nursing homes that get federal funds have to abide by certain special rules. What happens if they break those rules, does the government sanction them or can they be sued directly by the patient?

In some situations, the former is true (for example, you can't sue a restaurant that violates health codes, it's the government that acts to close them down). But in this case, the court decided on the latter.

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