• FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
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    There’s more than 100 possible combinations of race, nationality, gender identity, sexuality disability, etc, so you couldn’t accurately represent the whole human population with 100 people.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      you don’t need to though. Sure you could represent every european ethnicity, but that seems pretty stupid doesn’t it? The optimal solution is to just select people from the global population at complete random. Whatever you get is going to be pretty close. Not perfect, but close enough.

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      Not really trying to get every combination…but that would be an interesting challenge at a larger scale.

      More so…a group of 100 people that is representative of the exact proportion of each individual demographic.