James_K comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_K 10 November 2012 10:10:33AM 2 points [-]

The normal margin of error on a political opinion poll would be 1.96 sigma - a 95% confidence interval (that's how you'd get a margin of error of just over 3 percentage points on a poll of 1000 people.