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Obsessions Series : Sample Sizing

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Our lives exist as numbers.
Brands, government organisations and researchers scrutinize, count and contextualize us all the time. As a collective we form part of a sample size, where we become the most valuable in our 'bigness'.

Africa Check's Editor
In Chief, Anim Van Wyk takes us through the role of sample size in the world of fact checking, whereas Kaya FM's researcher, Reitumetse Mpholle looks the phenomenon by quantifying Afropolitanism
5 Aug 2019 English South Africa Society & Culture

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