Ready to Bang My Head Against a Poll

Ready to Bang My Head Against a Poll

           How many of you are sick of reading about polls?  Presidential polls, Senate polls, debate polls, local question polls.  This column is NOT political.  But since all the numbers you hear about polls are about math and statistics, many of the same types of numbers that are used in gaming, I thought I might give a quick lesson on interpreting some of what you hear.  The idea for this week's column came when a friend of a friend of mine remarked about two recent polls.  One showed Candidate A leading by 11 points and the other by 4 points.  Both had a margin of error of 3%.  He declared that one of the polls clearly had to be wrong.  WRONG!

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