• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When people are employed by those corporations, they have a vested interest in their livelihood not disappearing overnight.

    A survey of 700 people leaves considerable room for polling error. Without information on how they selected participants, I wouldn’t say that’s an overwhelming margin.

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      2 months ago

      When people are employed by those corporations,

      The report finds that about 64,000 Pennsylvania workers are employed in fossil fuel-based industries such as natural gas drilling, coal mining, and supporting activities

      https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2021/01/29/report-pennsylvania-stands-to-gain-243000-jobs-a-year-from-clean-energy-investment/

      64k, not just fracking, that’s all fossil fuel jobs in PA.

      There’s 12.7 million people in the state

      0.5% of people in the state work any job connected to fossil fuels…

      You’re confusing corporations and people homie.

      A survey of 700 people leaves considerable room for polling error

      You didn’t have to tell us you never learned about stats in any educational setting, but I appreciate the transparency.

      700 is more than enough

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        700 people is a good sample size if they are a truly random representative sample of your population. In real life, polling error tends to vary far more than 1/sqrt(n) because of systemic biases in how you select participants. Depending on how the survey was conducted, it could intrinsically favor certain demographics.