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Old 05-05-2013, 10:04 PM   #31
peter12
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
That's not how statistics work. Even though it's a tiny fraction of the US population that was polled, the margin of error is +/- 3.4%.
No, it actually is how statistics work. Small samples tend to show radical generalizations in any direction depending on who/when/how you sample.
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