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To: JediJones

That MOE (margin of error) number takes care of sample size, if you have studied statistics. As the sample size increases, MOE reduces. But to keep cost of polls reasonable they do not poll one million people each time, to drop MOE to near zero.


132 posted on 01/27/2016 2:55:34 PM PST by entropy12 (I am voting for GOP nominee, to avoid 1/2 vote for Hillary. But Jeb & Kasich put me in a conundrum!)
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To: entropy12

Yeah, um, that’s not what I was talking about. I’m talking about 666 being an unlucky number.


133 posted on 01/27/2016 2:58:03 PM PST by JediJones ("Beautiful, famous, successful, married - I've had them all, secretly." -Trump on women in 2007 book)
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