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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (18361)	10/4/2004 12:14:37 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Heck the pollsters use a sample size of 1,000 to reflect a voter population of 50 million." Uh, they also carefully adhere to stringent standards, then screen those who make it into the poll results. With that sample size they would claim a +/- 4% or 5% margin of error. Even then, bias & other factors often result in real life outcomes far outside their claimed margin of error. You simply chose the # of bookmarks to two SI threads with no valid underlying analysis. I figure your margin of error to be +/- 100%. Like you, I selected data after finding numbers that I really liked first. :-\