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To: DrC

Actually, your chances of being selected for any given poll are 1 in 313,232.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html


70 posted on 03/21/2011 7:50:38 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Beckwith

Well, most polls sample only adults. I was making an approximation of how many kids there are. As of 2009, we had 232 million adults age 18 or older. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0007.pdf. The population grows about 1% a year, so it’s probably about 237m. in 2011.

So your chances are 1 in 237,000. My DEEPEST apologies for this error...


72 posted on 03/21/2011 9:55:55 AM PDT by DrC
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