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Old 02-24-2017, 09:28 AM   #506
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If I recall the rest of the media and most folks reactions to that correctly, there was quite a bit of issue taken with the somewhat meager sample size. The results were a bit eyebrow raising, but with such a tiny poll size, folks wondered just how legitimate/accurate it could be overall.
It's only a tiny poll if you don't know anything about statistics.

823 sampled falls directly within the noted Confidence Interval reported (+/- 3.41%) for a population of 1,200,000 at a 95% Confidence Level.

Anyone criticizing the sample size is blowing smoke to deflect from the results.
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