Answer to Question #155485 in Statistics and Probability for EUGINE HAWEZA

Question

 A news report summarizes a poll of voters and then adds that the margin of error is plus or minus 4%. Explain what that means.

Answer 1

News report summarizes a poll of voters and the margin of error plus or minus 4%.

The margin of error plus or minus 4% explain that the amount of sampling error in a poll of voters which summarizes in news report. The smaller margin of error which is 4% in this survey suggests that more accuracy and if the larger margin of error means less accuracy in the survey.