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Originally Posted by Umbran  The "poll's level of confidence" is a technical issue important to statisticians, but of questionable relevance to how we here should view the results in this context. Our level of confidence in the poll is relevant, but not technically defined.
Folks, our polls are not scientific. They are a toy. Please don't argue about them like this. |
Level of confidence is in fact technically defined. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_level
Look, my initial post was trying to correct a very bad misapprehension (that 900 votes in a poll is a low number), in the field for which I'm a professional teacher. Are you saying as a mod that that's prohibited? Because I can't tell if you're talking as moderator or participant.
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