The margin of error, the plus or minus 3% in the above example, decreases as the sample size increases. This is only to a point. A very small sample, such as 50 respondents, has about a 14 % ...

There’s also coverage error, which happens when a sample excludes certain segments of the population it is trying to poll.For example, online-only polls exclude Americans who don’t have access ...

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

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 ...

August's jobs report fell short of economist expectations, with 142,000 jobs being added to the US labor market, below the anticipated 165,000. When factoring in downward revisions to previous ...

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's ...

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Doug Schwartz is the director of the Quinnipiac Poll, Quinnipiac University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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