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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

What's the margin of error for an unbiased sample of 500? 6%? 10%? Anyone want to do the math?


10 posted on 08/06/2004 6:44:55 PM PDT by outlawcam (No time to waste. Now get moving.)
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To: outlawcam

On top of that, anyone want to speculate as to whether or not the sample is biased?


11 posted on 08/06/2004 6:45:30 PM PDT by outlawcam (No time to waste. Now get moving.)
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To: outlawcam
What's the margin of error for an unbiased sample of 500? 6%? 10%? Anyone want to do the math?

If they're trotting out a cooked poll already, Obama's worried.

57 posted on 08/07/2004 5:04:06 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: outlawcam

It requires 880 samples to be able to correctly predict the the ratio of servals colors of colored marbles in any size jar. Let call it 900 so this poll has 5 chances out of 9 of being correct. In terms of margin of error (guessing here) that means the marget of error is about 45%.


72 posted on 08/07/2004 8:45:32 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
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