Word: minuses
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...pollsters sampling the whole country? Pollsters usually interview about 1,000 registered voters and, thanks to the magic of statistical math, 95% of the time those 1,000 accurately reflect the opinions of the entire country, give or take a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. But some people are not reached. Polls are conducted by phone, which leaves out about 8% of adult Americans, including those in institutions (prisons, hospitals, military bases), some low-income people and the approximately 4% of adults who have only cell phones. Then there are the people who hang up on pollsters...
...sophomore running back Clifton Dawson continues to race into the Harvard record books, he will have to do so for the rest of the season minus his primary lead blocker. Junior fullback Kelly Widman broke his right fibula in the Crimson’s game against Princeton on Saturday and will be out for the remainder of the season...
...24th Harvard Undergraduate Council convened for the first time last night minus one of the most active council figures on campus...
...poll was administered by telephone between June 16 and July 21, 2004 and surveyed 1,233 Medicare beneficiaries. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points...
...poll surveyed about 1,300 adults and had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent...