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**Cofeeman** · 08-19-2009, 01:46 AM

[quote]No one, not even a Ph.D. in statistics can answer that question. Statistics is one of the few "fuzzy" sciences... which is surprising since it is highly mathematical.

As new statistical methods are developed, they do no replace the existing ones. There are multiple methods to produce similar statistics, it is really up to the statistician's interpretation on which methods to use, since different methods can produce some wildly different results.

To answer your question, a bit of real logic can be used here: A sample of 234 bills is what percentage of the total number of bills available? Even if they are selected truly at random, what does 90% of

08-19-2009, 01:46 AM	#19
Cofeeman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 595 Senior Member	[quote]No one, not even a Ph.D. in statistics can answer that question. Statistics is one of the few "fuzzy" sciences... which is surprising since it is highly mathematical. As new statistical methods are developed, they do no replace the existing ones. There are multiple methods to produce similar statistics, it is really up to the statistician's interpretation on which methods to use, since different methods can produce some wildly different results. To answer your question, a bit of real logic can be used here: A sample of 234 bills is what percentage of the total number of bills available? Even if they are selected truly at random, what does 90% of
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