Equation 30 · Part 1 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door
Symbol n
What this part means
n is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
n is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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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