To: Phocion
Regarding this mini-debate about whether 51% qualifies as "most", the methodology of poll taking always includes a minimum margin of error, in this case, plus or minus three percent. That translates to a possible RANGE of outcomes if this poll were repeated of from 48% to 54%. This encompasses "most", "exactly half" and "fewer than half" with any of those three outcomes having equal validity.
Declaring "most" is misleading and unacceptable and the proper way of reporting results such as these is to say "half".
133 posted on
08/31/2006 10:59:37 PM PDT by
spinestein
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To: spinestein
Do you have any idea what the margin of error means?
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