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Old 11-05-2020, 08:04 AM   #2826
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT View Post
I'm not a fan of going to bat for Punished Nate, he deserves all the general contempt, except sampling error isn't just a number statisticians pull out of their ass, it's based on the Confidence Interval, Standard Deviation and Size of the Sample (relative to population).

You can criticize any poll or analysis for the human fault in sampling methodology/bias in questioning/etc. but the polls themselves are still falling within the sampling error, as they did in 2016.

As we've discussed ad nauseum in this thread and the previous one.
For President maybe but I think some numbers for House and Senate were really off.
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