On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, DeLa wrote:
> I have been trying to explain to some co-workers that a sample
> can be too big.
> That is not very easy because ...
... as everyone knows, more is better.
> [... and] because it is contradictory to what
> intuition says.
Only untutored intuition. Informed intuition sees clearly
that optimal sample size is a function of the precision _needed_ for the
task, inter alia. Were larger samples always more to be desired, we
would much more often be in the business of taking a census rather than
drawing a sample.
-- DFB.
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