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Jeff Miller: “Polling is based on sampling. Sampling is very appropriate where you do not have the time and money to go out and do an…”

On the recordJuly 30, 1998
Polling is based on sampling. Sampling is very appropriate where you do not have the time and money to go out and do an actual count. This is a $4 billion thing. This should not be the largest statistical experiment in history. That is what we are talking about, the largest statistical experiment in history. This is not an experiment we should test.
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Jeff Miller
Florida

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Discussing the implications of using polling methods for the census.

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