[lbo-talk] more polling stuff

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 19 13:00:24 PDT 2004


Miles Jackson wrote:


>Given the typical sampling error of 3 or 4 points, all of the poll
>results Doug provided are reasonably accurate estimates of the
>true population parameters here (% of votes for each candidate).
>Chalk one up for probability sampling, and color me impressed.

It's interesting, though, that the errors, though small, seemed biased and not random, with most polls reporting Bush ahead.

Doug



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