The results of polls usually contain a statement that the figures are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, 3 percentage points or whatever.

Key Points The margin of error allows you to use smaller sample sizes when conducting customer surveys. The measurement directly relates to the size of your sample, with larger sample sizes ...

Understanding the confidence interval will help you grasp what an election poll is -- or is not -- saying. As you might have guessed, the media consistently gets it wrong. Candidate Gobermouch is ...

This article originally appeared on Undark.. W hen pollsters, journalists, and pundits want to signal that an opinion poll may not be right on target, they often turn to a familiar metric: the ...

We get statistics like these thrown at us every day. A few years ago, we were told that a woman over 30 is more likely to get struck by lightning than find a husband. Then we were told that it ...

Although YouGov calculates a "model-based margin of error" for each survey, we have not been reporting it when we discuss the survey results in HuffPost. The problem: If we cite YouGov’s margin ...

How do I know if a candidate’s lead is ‘outside the margin of error’? News reports about polling will often say that a candidate’s lead is “outside the margin of error” to indicate that a candidate’s ...

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In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you’ll hear the phrase “within the poll ...