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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared
I often see polls qualified like the following example:
These are usually national polls, and the number of respondents to be statistically accurate (usually around 1,200) to between plus or minus 4 percentage points doesn't seem to be very high.
WDE.
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I suspect you are thinking of surveys based on a random sample. Given the decidedly non-random approach taken for this survey, no such generalization can be made. Think "Family Feud" rather than Gallop polls.
