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Erring on the Margin of Error.

The term “margin of error” is often erroneously explained in news articles reporting the results of public-opinion polls. We present here a number of representative examples of such misinterpretations drawn from the popular news media as well as from a number of authoritative Web sites (including th...

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Published in:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 130 - 136
Main Authors: Thornton, Robert J., Thornton, Jennifer A.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2004
Subjects:
Public opinion polls
Websites
Economics methodology
Measurement errors
Statistical sampling
Error analysis in mathematics
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