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To: deport
"...(margin of sampling error +/– 9 percent-age points)..."

That means if they polled Arnold at 22% then his support actually could be ANYWHERE from 13% up to 31%. If Cruz polled at 35% then his support actually could be ANYWHERE from 26% to 44%. Since they overlap, the poll is meaningless as they both are within the margin of error of each other. Arnold could be at 31% and Cruz at 26% given the +/- 9% margin of error. Most polls cite a +/- 3% margin of error. That this one is so big means they knew they were skewing the results.

14 posted on 08/25/2003 9:41:52 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls
The +-9 percent is for the Latino subset of 125 only. So any numbers you see in their set are +-9. The overall poll is +-3%.
22 posted on 08/26/2003 7:46:04 AM PDT by deport
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