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http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29723/umfrage/anzahl-der-mitglieder-ausgewaehlter-vereine-der-bundesliga/ Data fom 31st of January: Freiburg now have about 46k members, more than Werder or Union! On a side note: Hoffenheim are on 17th spot with 11k members, while Leipzig have 750.

How beautiful

This is the good shit on the internet.

And as if by magic...

http://transfermarkt.de/1-bundesliga/daten/wettbewerb/L1/sort/mitglieder.desc That's a full survey.

Stuff like this is just fantastic. Reminds me of an America's Got Talent Performance when you had a slightly similar thing happen.

Still been lucky playing Thunderball and winning £3, 5 & 10 now and then, and once won £100, going to put the Euro on tonight as the feet man, @MUFC, has just started a thread called Would becoming a millionaire change you as a person? and got me dreaming.

This looks phenomenal... Can't wait for the full movie.

Yeah the positive stuff is really nice to see, because honestly seeing how the IRI's responded to people demanding... basic human rights... has been pretty disturbing and honestly it's not been great for my mental health. But the positive stuff, like these organizations coming together despite ideological differences for a common cause for a better Iran... it's good to see things like that in the face of the IRI's brutality. And thanks. They're mostly okay, although - they've not been totally unscathed by everything that's happened in the past few months - none of them have been killed, at least. But it's not been an easy time these past few months.

It's fantastic to see this. Truly is. There has been marches nationwide in solidarity to the Iranian people, and two of them were here in Atlanta. At work, there are a few Iranians and it's just unreal to hear stories about what is taking place there... Truly shocking. I hope your family is well (I think your Mom's family is still over there if I'm remembering correctly), but yeah, seeing the people of Iran stand up for their rights is completely inspiring.

We are considering going to Portugal/Spain for the a couple of weeks in the summer, but we are also considering New Zealand later in the year. Certainly won't do both, but we are likely doing one. Been trying to talk the wife into letting me do the World Marathon Challenge, which are 7 Marathons on 7 Continents in 7 Days. Day 1 - Novo Antarctica Day 2 - Cape Town, South Africa Day 3 - Perth Australia Day 4 - Dubai, UAS Day 5 - Madrid, Spain Day 6 - Fortaleza, Brazil Day 7 - Miami, Florida, USA

Yeah, there's an argument that using sample sizes that are too high is unnecessary/inefficient for research - as well as arguably unethical (and conversely, using sample sizes that are too small is considered unscientific and unethical). But there's a few things to consider when you need to determine the sample size of a survey: 1.) population size; 2.) the confidence interval (the margin of error you're allowing for in the survey - a lot of the time with surveys you see online it's a margin of error of + or - 5%); 3.) the confidence level (how confident you are that the actual mean of the results falls into the confidence level; 4.) the standard deviation (a lower standard deviation means the values will be clustered around the mean, a high standard deviation means they're spread across a wider range) - when you haven't yet run a survey, don't know what your standard deviation's going to be... .5 is what's used on a lot of surveys. In statistics there's something called a z-score you use for formulas trying to take your confidence level and plug it into a formula to get the required sample size. For a 95% confidence level (with that +/- 5% margin of error I mentioned) the z-score = 1.96. There's a few different formulas you can use to determine a sample size. One common one is Cochran's formula, which is: necessary sample size = (z-score)2 x Standard deviation x (1-standard deviation) / (margin of error)2 , so plugging all that shite I talked mentioned above necessary sample size = (1.96)2 x .5(.5) / (.05)2 ... (3.8416 x .25) / .0025.... .9604/.0025... 384.16 And since you can't sample .16 of a person, the necessary sample size is 385. Then there's a correction formula for Cochran's formula for "small populations", which is: adjusted necessary sample size = the necessary sample size we got above / 1 + (necessary sample size from above - 1)/size of population being sampled. So filling in those variables with the Netherlands' population (which you'll see, we don't really need to do because the Netherlands does not have a small population) adjusted sample size = 385 / 1+ (384/17.5m)... 385 / 1 + ( .00002194)... so 385/1.00002194... 384.991553 & since we can't sample .99 of a person, that's 385. It's important to note that statistical significance is not always the same as research significance (though they can be related) and there are a lot of variables that go into whether a sampled population is considered quality or not. Apologies for the random statistics lesson!

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