Comments on: Margin of error, error of margin, whatever http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/10/15/margin-of-error-error-of-margin-whatever/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tom Hoverman http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/10/15/margin-of-error-error-of-margin-whatever/#comment-314502 Tom Hoverman Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:40:37 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6866#comment-314502 Regarding "margin of error" in polls, can you tell me why when a poll shows Candidate A with a 5-point lead in a poll with a margin of error of 5 points that the media always refer to this as a "virtual tie?" Wouldn't it be just as true to describe Candidate A as having a "virtual 10-point lead?" Why the bias toward the middle? Regarding “margin of error” in polls, can you tell me why when a poll shows Candidate A with a 5-point lead in a poll with a margin of error of 5 points that the media always refer to this as a “virtual tie?”

Wouldn’t it be just as true to describe Candidate A as having a “virtual 10-point lead?” Why the bias toward the middle?

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