Tag Archives: Biased Samples

A recent example of the reference-class problem

Posted on November 6, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

As Zeynep Tufekci explains in this excellent essay, the now-infamous Catcalling Video was not based on a random sample of New York City neighborhoods. Here is the actual and non-random breakdown of time spent in each neighborhood: In other words, the methodology of the … Continue reading →

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