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		GeneralMayhem on March 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IE10 falls below IE9 in market share That is mathematically false. Simply having more people does not make a survey better without taking into account how the sample was chosen.

fauigerzigerk on March 2, 2014 [–]

That's true, but if the size of your sample is 99% of the population, that sample is always going to be close to random. For all practical purposes it's not actually a sample any longer.

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