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Old 19-10-2006, 11:46   #42
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Re: A little inside information by an Employee.

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Originally Posted by Stuart C View Post
5,000 out of one million plus customers? That's (at most) 0.5%. I don't think that is a resonable sample (in fact, I am pretty sure most surveys have a margin of error considerably larger than that).

But, I don't want to go off topic.
Actually, election opinion polls are conducted on a far smaller sample of the electorate than that. A decent general election exit poll would query about 20,000 of the 25 million or so people who vote on the day and expect a margin of error of perhaps +/- 3%.
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