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Originally Posted by J_Murphy
Is this another one of those polls that sample about 0.05% of the population and is accurate to within 5 percentage points, 95% of the time?
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To be fair though, all polls use the same methodology. Most people think a small portion being sampled is not representative, but that's not actually the case. If the sample is selected properly you don't need a large number for it to be representative. Albeit, the bigger the sample the higher it's precision (i.e. improves the margin of error)