Let’s say 49 percent of people are going to vote for Obama. But we have a margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. What that means is if we kept taking samples, 95 percent of the time, we ...

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 ...

A new WRAL News polling blog kicks off with an explanation of why good polls disagree and what approval ratings for politicians are really telling us.

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 ...

Israel-Iran live updates: Trump says 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN,' hints at regime change ...

Those results were within our poll’s margin of error, meaning we were correct to declare it “too close to call” – and we would have been wrong to say Clinton was ahead. 2024 will be a ...

As the director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, which has been taking the pulse of the public on policy issues and elections for the past 30 years, I’ve noted that people have been paying ...