• julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    How do you know that waitlist people are overrepresented? The problem with sampling biases is that you don‘t how the estimate is affected.

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      2 months ago

      I only stumbled over these sites after I got put on the waitlist, if I had gotten on the reservation list I probably wouldn’t have looked around as much. Assuming I’m not special, that would mean there’s some bias towards waitlisted people. But I might be wrong about that, sure