Thursday, August 19, 2004

Stats

I've long thought that everyone should have to take a class in statistics in high school. Most people, myself included, don't understand the first thing about stats, and yet we hear statistics all the time, never more so than in a political year. Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly's Political Animal does a good job of explaining what "margin of error" means in political polls.

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