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Old 05-06-2008, 08:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Keith S. View Post
Most of those electronic ones say they have a 6% degree of variance. Which means 25.4% could really mean 19.4% or 31.4% or anywhere in between...
Wow -- that would make them pretty useless. Are you sure they mean 6 percentage points, as opposed to 6% (6% of 25% is 1.5%, so if 6% is what they mean, the range would be 23.5% to 26.5%).
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