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AP U.S. Government 1.1 Political Beliefs and Behaviors. Scientific polls contain a margin of error of plus or minus what?


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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the margin of error the part of your paper

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where it's safe to make mistakes Really All right Well

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scientific polls contain a margin of error of plus or

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minus What And hear the potential answers with three four

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five All right Well poles might seem super scientific with

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all their decimals and prevented signs and whatnot but they

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can't claim to be exactly right one hundred percent of

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the time See what we did there will do Scientific

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polls contain a margin of error of plus or minus

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a one percent Well the margin of error basically means

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how much wiggle room you have when you're giving your

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exact answer But one percent seems a little too small

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So let's look for something that gives us a bit

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more room to groove Good The margin of error of

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plus or minus two percent Stupid question This is by

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the way who is certainly better than one But we're

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still a little too thin around the margins here So

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he's more of a bus Well we're going to skip

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to d what should i tell you What The answer

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Is how about four percent Well four certainly evens things

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out of it but we might have gone a little

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too far in the wrong direction What about e five

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percent Well what if we got a seventy ana tasked

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with a plus or minus five percent huh Pretty wide

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swing That means that scientific polls contain a margin of

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error of plus or minus three percent You know who

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made that law for three percent but that's how they

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do it three percent a bit of an arbitrary cut

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off But it's generally accepted standard for poles of finding

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a fifty percent with a three percent margin of error

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means that the real answer if you could ask all

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members of the population would range somewhere between forty seven

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and fifty three percent So c is the correct answer

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Margins of error alleviate the pressure to be exact one

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hundred percent of the time making it easier when you

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have to dig yourself out of a particularly bad fool 00:01:46.834 --> [endTime] don't don't

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