| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Well I'm happy | |
| Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
| Date/Time: | 24/06/16 15:38:00 |
| If I had a group of 38 wheelchair users of the same age, would you claim they would be unrepresentative of young people because they were disabled ? Yes. For a start, 38 people isn't a large enough sample for an accurate representation of the age group as a whole. There are about 5 million teenagers in the UK so you would need a group of almost 10,000 people if you wanted a margin of error of 1%. That isn't opinion. It is provable mathematics. Secondly, a group of 100% disabled people clearly isn't representative of the population as a whole and neither is a group of 100% males, 100% females, 100% muslims, 100% catholics or 100% chiswickw4 posters. |