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...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 130 - 136 |
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