DoobDasher is doing 25 percent off FridaySaturday <| sep |> Funny considering how every US citizen also seems to be critical of their healthcare and government systems . <| sep |> Seems like it , usually I play after work and I get none of these messages . Didn ' t have to go into work today and played 4 games , two of them I got rage messages . <| sep |> Is that your left hand ring finger ? Your stick should be resting on the cuticle , not the first joint . <| sep |> I love those eagles ! <| sep |> Sample size is an interesting one , because it is essentially a costbenefit analysis done by the researchers . The larger the sample size , the more representative it is of the larger population . One should not state that all men love ice cream by simply interviewing 5 men on the street . So , in theory , researchers would want their sample size to equal the population size in totality , but it ' s simply not time and cost efficient . In certain circumstances variable independence , among others , researchers often rely on what is known as the Central Limit Theorem to stipulate that if the sample size is large enough typically 30 , it will start to form a normal distributionEmpiricalRule . PNG , or what is known as a bell curve , which makes it easier to study . Also of importance is the alpha level assigned to the sampleresearch , as this will , in essence , be the confidence level of the study . For an alpha of . 055 % the standard , researchers can say that these results are accurate , with 95 % confidence . To understand this further you can read on rejectingfailing to reject a null hypothesis , which is essentially the control group of the study . In example , if I want to study whether incident A will yield result B , the null hypothesis will state that incident A will have no effect on result B . Often , for a paperstudy to be considered sound , the key is that its results have been replicated and peer reviewed . The peer review is inherent in the journal publishing it they have a set of reviewer academics that will read and provide feedback to every published article . The replication is slightly less sexy than a new study , but it removes and potential error from bias or environmental circumstances . You can typically nail down the veracity of of a journal by its renownimpact factor . The American Journal of Medicine is going to have more accurately scientific studies than , say , The BeardWielder ' s UpstairsMedicalSchool Journal of TruthyTruthfulness .