To: Oldeconomybuyer
+/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters... Different sample sizes. As a rule of thumb, the "margin of error" is reported as 98% divided by the square root of the sample size, implying (accurate in the first two places) that the sample was 1300 voters, 430 of whom were Democrats.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I've often wondered why most statisticians lack a sense of humor. ;-)
19 posted on
11/22/2003 8:43:20 AM PST by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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