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The Polack MSgt

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8. I do understand the math
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 02:12 PM
Oct 2016

and no I didn't break out the discrete responses add them up to recalculate a new average.

I averaged the percentages. Here is why - These polls had a small spread (47% to 51%) and a similar sample size, so the affect of a small sample size outlier should not be significant.

Percentage of respondents that favor Trump:

CNN/ORC 49%
CBS News/New York Times 49%
Fox News 51%
Monmouth University 47%
Quinnipiac University 50%

Which averages out to 49.2%

I also used 50% instead of the 49.2% to make a "how can half of us support this clown?" post rather than a statistical breakdown of the polling data.

One statistics class I took in the 80s does not make me a data cruncher worth reading - DU has a lot of smart people who do those types of posts.

Thanks for responding FML (wow, those initials are unfortunate... How about I call ya Forgot?)

Peace

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