(08-10-2017, 03:10 PM)Kane Wrote: Wonder how they came up with that...
Oh... a survery?
The first survey in 2001-02 questioned about 43,000 people on their drinking habits, while the second (2012-2014) questioned 36,000 people. These large samples aimed to include people from all walks of life in the US to make sure they painted an accurate picture of the national population.

The number of people who had consumed alcohol in the past 12 months went up 11.2% in the time between surveys. High-risk drinking went up by almost 30%. This means that at present about 29.6 million Americans are putting their health at risk due to their drinking habits.


I'm going to round up to 50k for my argument...

50k people surveyed is such a small sample of how many people are actually in America...323 million
0.015479876161% (percentage of people polled of US population)

Findings should say "1 in 8 people of those surveyed"

Because to extrapolate so far is ridiculous.
And this is why people THINK they are going to win elections when they aren't. Because with the large population of America you can not poll or survey for accurate results.

Yet people still blindly follow these polls and surveys done by people who obviously have too much time on their hands.