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LPT If you’re reading a poll and the margin of error makes either number cross 50%, the poll is meaningless

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LPT If you’re reading a poll and the margin of error makes either number cross 50%, the poll is meaningless As election time is gearing up in the United States, we’re about to see a lot of polls showing “person x is winning with z% in our polls”. Take a look at the margin of error, though. If you add the margin of error and it crosses 50%, i.e. 48% with 3% MOE = 51%, that means that article is basically just for getting clicks/views/whatever. It’s a s…

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