Margin of Error Quotes

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you can't be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

My accident - 15 centimetres right and nothing would have happened; 10 centimetres left and I would not be here.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.

I think polling methodology is broken.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

You never want to leave points out on the field, especially in a game when you know it is going to be close.

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

Like any poll, it depends on the ethnicity of the person asking the questions and the nature of the questions.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different polls. There is no question that American Muslims remain one of the most marginalized and demonized groups in United States. There has been a sustained propaganda campaign against Muslims for over a decade and it doesn't disappear over night. Those attitudes are hardened. But one of the things that polling often doesn't measure is the intensity of opinions.

Exit polls have gone notoriously wrong in the past.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.