"There is a 97.5% chance that Al Gore was short-changed at least 2,008 votes...."

> p.s: one more thing: you're "too
> practical"...

Sandy no-one can be "too practical" -- I'm a bona-fide klutz myself.... :)

Impractical Dien

> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20001111_xnfoj_florida_ba.shtml

I'm sure everyone's pretty tired of this topic.... but anyway....

13 Fourth graders are not statistically significant. There were 400,000 ballots cast in Palm Beach County, with possibly around 2,000 of them being mistaken. That's just 1/2 of a percent, or one out of every 200 votes.... Even though the percentage is so small, this election is so close it makes a difference.

It's impossible to tell a 1/2 of a percent difference in a survey of only 13 people -- you would probably want a survey of at least 200 to 2000 people to be able to detect an effect which affects only 1/2 of a percent of those surveyed. :)

Dien Rice

It still makes me wonder that 4th graders
didn't have a problem..but I'm statistically
challenged I admit...
Then and again if we look at this real
close...it would seem statistically probable
we would have heard about all the polling
problems at the time of the Clinton election...

Just my take...I don't do statistics ...
Statistics can be used to justify anything if
you know how to present the numbers...but we
can agree to disagree and that's what life is
really about