The Huffington Post: NBC/WSJ Poll finds African-Americans Give President Bush A Positive Rating. ⇒
14 October 2005, the wee hours
Ju-Lian passed this little tid-bit of new on to me. 2%? Let us say for the sake of argument the margin of error is 6%, which is quite high, a 8% approval rating also sucks a lot. Damn.
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The original article says The poll, based on interviews with 807 adults, was conducted between October 8 and October 10 and had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points. But this was just random Americans being asked about politics. Not African-Americans.
Assuming the poll was a perfect sample of US demographics (which I highly doubt) then 12.9% * 807 = 104 African-Americans were surveyed. Which means the margin of error would be massive – easily in the double digits. (I’m too lazy to work it out).
(The 3.4% margin of error is only applicable to the stats derived from all 807 surveyees – and even 807 people is too small a sample size).
by Ryan on October 14 2005, 2:51 am #
Nice work Ryan. It pays to know people who didn’t forget all the stats they were forced to take in University.
by ramanan on October 14 2005, 3:02 am #