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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Doughboy who wrote (2020)8/19/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: j_b  Read Replies (1) of 13994
 
<<According to the data I've seen>>

Funny thing about that poll - it involved all of 503 people, 30% of whom didn't even watch the speech. No offense, but I have trouble believing that an accurate reading of American opinion can be had with 500 (or 1,000, or even 5,000) people being polled. One of the first things I learned about taking samples (I'm a CPA, so sample selection is important to me), is that you first have to have a homogenous population. If you don't you either have to break down the population into homogenous parts and sample them separately, or have a sample large enough to reduce the potential for error. IMHO, there are more than 500 discrete groups that should be polled, let alone extrapolating the views of such a small sample to the entire populace.

Let's assume 99% of the population agreed with you - would that make what Clinton did okay?
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