• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    25 days 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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      25 days ago

      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.