Equation 22 · Part 1 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door
Symbol n
What this part means
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol n→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…population totals or the actual SharedResponsesSurvey.csv microdata, and no value of for any real country is claimed here. What can be computed honestly, using only the paper’s own reported extremes for n — 101 respondents at the low end, 448,125 at the high end [ 1 ] — is how small would need to be, at illustrative (not dataset-matched) population scales, to produce a cross-country divergence of = 0.1 , a magnitude in the range visible between clusters in the paper’s own Fig. 3b…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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