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2016 Postmortem

upaloopa

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6. A polls is a random selection. Usually around 2000 people over a couple of days. The population

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:04 PM

Dec 2015

the selection is drawn from may be a state or a country or some other geographic area.

Say they selected Iowa as the population which is 3.107 million and they selected 2000 people at random

If you lived in Iowa your chances of being selected are (2000/3107000)x100% or .000643708

So if you live in Iowa your not being polled don't mean jack shit

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Let's have some fun... phone polls [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2015 OP

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