Back in the day, we learned in statistics that you need a sample size of at least 2% of the size of population to make statistically significant conclusions about the behavior of the population. In ...

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Say you flip a quarter five times, and four of those times it comes up heads. You might chalk it up to random chance. Now say you flip that quarter 500 times, and it lands on heads 400 times. That’s ...