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After taking the first set by a wide margin, the Harvard women's volleyball team dropped the next three to fall to the University of Connecticut last night in Storrs...
Harvard began the match in competitive fashion, taking the first frame by a wide margin. But after battling in a close second set, the Huskies took control of the match with convincing third and fourth set dominance...
...Gallup poll (where Gore gets five percent more support than Bush) has a margin of error of four percent. The Voter.com poll (where Bush gets two percent more support than Gore) has a margin of error of three percent. Thus, in both polls, Bush and Gore are in a "statistical dead heat." No one has an edge. Nevertheless, this article, like many others I have read, mistakenly puts Gore ahead...
...poll. Second, the headlines are based solely on registered voters--a fact that might be easy to overlook, given that it took five or more paragraphs to discover. Third, Newsweek has lauded Gore with such headlines as, "Candidate's speech propel him to a lead," (August 19th) when the margin of error indicated a tie, demonstrating either an ignorance of what their polls mean, or a reluctance to speak about...
Over the last two weeks, Newsweek has begun to mention the results among likely voters. But without mentioning the margin of error among them, the polls remain meaningless...