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Title: Pew research reported in 2013 that 15% of American adults do not use the internet or e-mail. They ...
Post by: stevengu246 on Aug 30, 2019
Pew research reported in 2013 that 15% of American adults do not use the internet or e-mail. They report a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points. The meaning of that margin of error is:

▸ They are pretty sure that the poll result differs from the actual percentage of American adults who don't use the internet or e-mail by 2.3% or less.

▸ They estimate that 2.3% of those surveyed answered incorrectly.

▸ If they repeatedly sampled from the population, and constructed a confidence interval for each estimate, about 2.3% of those intervals would capture the proportion of American adults who don't use the internet or e-mail.

▸ There is a 2.3% probability that their estimate is incorrect.

▸ They are 2.3% confident that their confidence interval captures the true proportion of American adults that don't use the internet or e-mail.


Title: Pew research reported in 2013 that 15% of American adults do not use the internet or e-mail. They ...
Post by: abonaccorso1 on Aug 30, 2019
They are pretty sure that the poll result differs from the actual percentage of American adults who don't use the internet or e-mail by 2.3% or less.