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Foil 1 Rolling Dice and Deciding who will win the Election Geoffrey Fox Java Academy March 20 99

From Java Academy:Polls and Throwing Dice NPAC Java Academy February--April 99 -- Mar 20 1999. by Geoffrey Fox
1 If you follow the process of an election or the White House or Republicans deciding on the correct strategy, one goes out and takes a poll.
2 Often the same issue is polled by lots of different groups; CNN, New York Times; political parties etc. You may have noticed that most polls use between 500 and 1500 people. Here we will try to show you why!
3 You may have also noticed that such polls quote a margin of error in their results
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