Question Regarding Election Result Project in Data Science Path

https://www.codecademy.com/paths/data-science/tracks/intro-statistics-numpy/modules/dspath-intro-statistics/projects/election-binomial

In the project in the link, in step 4, I don’t understand why the size parameter in the np.random.binomial() function has to be 10,000. I know that 10,000 is the size of the town’s population, but why does that matter when choosing the number of experiments in this case?

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It does, in fact, seem arbitrary to require that the number of experiments be equal to the size of the voting population. More reasonable is that proposing a larger survey of 7000 voters in step 7 recognizes that with a voting population of 10000, this would represent 70% of that population, and would theoretically generate a far more reliable conclusion.

In real life, of course, the survey itself could influence the actual results, especially if the survey results were announced prior to the election.