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Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day (www.euronews.com)
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[–] -2 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Where do they get these stats from ?

Bullshit statistics.

10k were interviewed. They extrapolate 10k to the population of Europe. C'mon that's just mad. Especially with something as complicated as poverty.

Europe also currently has a war ongoing and has huge areas of incredibly poor and wealthy. Can't really average that out. Wouldn't trust anything that comes out of this research institution

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  • [+] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [+] -18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For this kinda thing ? Really ? 10k to extrapolate into the population of what 300 mil ?

    Think that's pretty wild. For maybe a single question with a few variations but something as complicated and complex as poverty and spending habits.

    Iyf like to see the sources to back up that claim.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If that 10k is representative, that should give a very small uncertainty interval, less than 1%. You can get 95% confidence interval with only a few hundred samples depending on the standard deviation, so 10k is actually massive. It's pretty standard statistics, here's more info on how it's calculated.

    https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/introstats/chapter/7-5-calculating-the-sample-size-for-a-confidence-interval/

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Dug around a little. Seems the 10k were split between 10 different states. Here is an infographic from the source:

    The numbers do seem inflated and don't add up very well comparatively between the different countries either.

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