Re: Florida votes and statistical errors

2000-12-09 Thread Donald Burrill
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin > of error for the counting process, ... Is it, indeed? How do you define "margin of error" for this process? > ... declaring the winner is mathematically indeterminable ...

Re: Florida votes and statistical errors (fwd)

2000-12-09 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin of error for the counting process, declaring the winner is mathematically indeterminable within any reasonable degree of scientific confidence. Since we cannot know who ha

Re: Florida votes and statistical errors

2000-12-09 Thread thompson
Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin of error for the counting process, declaring the winner is mathematically indeterminable within any reasonable degree of scientific confidence. Since we cannot know who has won, the Florida Legislature should use their power

Re: Florida votes and statistical errors

2000-12-09 Thread thompson
Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin of error for the counting process, declaring the winner is mathematically indeterminable within any reasonable degree of scientific confidence. Since we cannot know who has won, the Florida Legislature should use their power