--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Three percent (51:48) is not, by any definition of > the term, a > substantial majority. As it happens, three percent > is within the margin > of error for most statistical purposes. Fact check, > indeed.
Warren, _an election is not a sample_. "The margin of error" refers to the chance that the mean of a statistical sample of a population differs from the true mean of a population. But an election is not a sample. An election is an enumeration of the entire universe - all votes. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l