• Optional@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    the poll is from 908 people who answered thirty questions, by telephone.

    If that doesn’t strike you as profoundly weird, it probably should. 908/161420000 = 0.00000562507743774

    So 0.00005% of registered voters think Biden’s gonna drop out and Trump is super fit and healthy.

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      9 months ago

      With a good poll design and a good representative sample you can get a 98% confidence interval (within ± 5%) for the US with as few as 550 people.

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      9 months ago

      tell us you don’t understand mathematics without telling us you don’t understand mathematics