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Source: JournalistsResource.orgThe margin of error: 7 tips for journalists writing about polls and surveys
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Journalists often make mistakes when reporting on data such as opinion poll results, federal jobs reports and census surveys because they don’t quite understand — or they ignore — the data’s margin of error.