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A poor fellow has the thankless task of teaching me statistics, and he pointed out this silly story from CNN, purporting to combine various polls to come up with a “poll of polls.”

Here’s the best part: “The poll of polls does not have a sampling error.”

Yup, plus or minus zero. That’s some accurate poll.

The best part about this is that this statement is absolutely correct. There is no error, because 100 percent of the population was sampled. Yep, all five of five polls included in the population.
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