Andrew White 🐦⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · Dec 3 Percentages are always thrown around to make something more "scientific." I've always wondered if you can infer something about population size from the value - like if a study reports a percentage of 66%, does that imply a larger population size than one that reports 67%? 1/5
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It turns out, you can make predictions. For example, here's the most likely population sizes implied by seeing a percentage of 13%. This arises from how 13 factors with 100, and from the uneven prior distribution of sample sizes reported in literature. 2/5