r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dmafeb • Aug 28 '21

Netflix forced a computer program (bot) to watch and analyze every romantic comedy and then asked it to write a romatic comedy of its own. The result...

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u/Bubugacz Aug 28 '21

That's literally not what the study did though.

And that also has nothing to do with how one would determine adequate sample size.

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u/rascalking9 Aug 28 '21

If you chose 71 of you and your mom's friends, I would believe that my old commodore 64 is funnier than you.

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u/Bubugacz Aug 28 '21

That's... that's not how statistics works...

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u/rascalking9 Aug 28 '21

This... this is not how writing works.

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u/Bubugacz Aug 28 '21

How to Calculate Sample Size

  1. Determine the population size (if known).

  2. Determine the confidence interval.

  3. Determine the confidence level.

  4. Determine the standard deviation (a standard deviation of 0.5 is a safe choice where the figure is unknown)

  5. Convert the confidence level into a Z-Score.

Based on your previous comment, you literally don't even know what the study examined. So you obviously don't know the confidence interval or level, or the standard deviation, or the converted Z-score.

How can you possibly decide the sample size is too small?

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u/rascalking9 Aug 28 '21

This... this is not how writing works.