The margin of error, the plus or minus 3% in the above example, decreases as the sample size increases. This is only to a ...

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Prob chart. For both lines, the slope is greatest near 50%. Reading off the chart, the probability of winning with a poll of sample size 1100 is around 25% if the poll result was 49%, but improves ...

“You see most polls sample around 1,000 people. [Because of the formula for calculating the margin of error], ... the square root of the sample size in the denominator and that graph sorta ...

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Polling organizations, by contrast, often present survey estimates by themselves and only mention the survey’s overall margin of sampling error, often at the bottom of charts or press releases. Both ...

It would give you vague claims such as, "The proportion of Americans who support the death penalty is somewhere between 60 percent and 80 percent." Pollsters thus spend the money to get a ...

Take drug development, for example. It is always true to predict that a new medication will be somewhere between 0% and 100% effective for everyone on Earth.

These large sample size polls now have a comparatively larger weight, and as such Obama’s numbers have dropped a couple points in Texas, enough to take it off his Swing State List.