> Five hundred data points collected from 13 vessels sounds impressive, but David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, describes it as "a literal drop in the ocean." Johns would know—the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been running since 1958 and has accumulated more than 265,000 samples.
That uh isn't how stats works. 500 data points is a significant amount if they were being taken in a proper (randomized) manner. Maybe Johns is being taken out of context (i.e. his point might be that the sampling methodology was poor) but this too sounds like BS.
That uh isn't how stats works. 500 data points is a significant amount if they were being taken in a proper (randomized) manner. Maybe Johns is being taken out of context (i.e. his point might be that the sampling methodology was poor) but this too sounds like BS.