Now, obviously, six or seven Canadians watching Paul Krugman is not a scientific survey. There are 33.2 million Canadians, so seven people would not make a legitimate sample, would it? [That would be a sample size of .000002%]
On the other hand, if you called up 527 self-identified Republicans nationwide, and only 221 of them said they were sure that Barack Obama was born in the United States, would that entitle you to say that 58% of all GOPers are potential birthers?
Well, let's see: there are roughly 55 million Republicans in the US, so that would be a sample size of .000095%, which is an order of magnitude larger but hardly conclusive.
Anyway, the Krugman video is funny in inconsequential, and only 34 seconds long.
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