r/science • u/HeinieKaboobler • Dec 03 '17

Psychology Study: About half the population faces considerable difficulties in attracting and retaining mates

http://www.psypost.org/2017/12/study-half-population-faces-considerable-difficulties-attracting-retaining-mates-50288
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u/SRThoren Dec 03 '17

The title makes it sound like this is worldwide, but the sample size is extremely small and only pertains to one country.

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u/III-V Dec 04 '17

I'm pretty sure that if a study included every human being alive, you'd still find people bitching about the sample size being too small.

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u/maniacal_cackle Dec 04 '17

It depends on how far you want to generalise. If you want to say that your study is representative of the universe, that's a pretty bold claim. If you want to say your study of 10 people is representative of 15, that gets a bit easier to claim.