Metadata
- Author: Alexander
- Full Title:: Twitter Convenience Samples
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Statistics,
- URL:: https://datepsychology.com/twitter-convenience-samples/
- Finished date:: 2023-08-12
Highlights
Attractiveness is one domain where, across the literature, we see fairly high agreement. Regardless of the sample, regardless of the culture or the population, people tend to agree pretty well on what an attractive face is (Langlois et al., 2000). (View Highlight)
To sum it up, the only clear takeaway is that you probably shouldn’t use convenience samples for estimating frequencies within a population (View Highlight)
This is why convenience samples are very valuable. Drawn from different populations, convenience samples let you see how consistent your results are across populations. Does a sample from Twitter produce radically different results from an MTurk sample, a sample of your local college students, or the entire population of the USA? It might, it might not. You don’t know unless you contrast the results of the two (View Highlight)