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I guess things went wrong with my sarcastic remark on being able to "dictate" the margin of error.

With respect to statistics and online surveys, I'm not even skeptical but outright cynical. Calculating the margin of error with a standard deviation only works for representative samples, which reviews.org most likely is not able to provide. Adding these percentages and terms to the report gives a false sense of reliability, which annoys me.

Still, I should probably not have resorted to sarcasm. My apologies for that.



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