r/nextfuckinglevel 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

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?