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      What does the margin of error of a poll have to do with the outcome of an election? Like, I definitely think he’s got zero political mandate for anything because he barely won (and I think he only even got that because the Democratic party has a bunch of their voters stay home), but I am still pretty convinced that Trump did in fact win the election.

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      -83 months ago

      Yes because a poll is maybe a thousand people. It’s not when you poll millions of people.

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        73 months ago

        Don’t know much about statistics I’m guessing. That’s more than enough of a sample size to represent a population. That’s why there’s a margin of error in polls.

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          I’d hypothesize that the average person doesn’t know much about statistics

          e; better phrasing