As Americans await the presidential election results, many are looking to the polls for clues. A poll’s margin of error describes how close a survey result can ...

Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with ...

In presidential elections, even the smallest changes in horse-race poll results seem to become imbued with deep meaning. But they are often overstated. Pollsters ...

You can’t get into an argument about polls without some wise guy whipping out the “margin of error” to shut down the other side. But what is the margin of error, exactly? (Or, as Gilda Radner’s ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When pollsters, journalists, and pundits want to signal that an opinion poll may not be right on target, they often turn ...

In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you'll hear the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! CBS News Election and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto explains the margin of error in survey data and how it can ...

In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you’ll hear ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! CBS Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto discussed the idea of margin of error and how sampling error ...

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