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Old 27th November 2008 | 21:15
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PeltonLevel
 
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I apologise, I incorrectly considered all on here to have a grasp of very basic maths
I can see that, if either of these polls is representative of voting intentions of the membership as a whole, the the noes have it by a fair margin.

The problem is, there is a difference between very basic maths and statistics.
I know that the arithmetic mean of 83 and 60 is 71 and the arithmetic mean of 40 and 17 is 29 (both rounded). But, not knowing the size of either sample, or whether anyone has voted in both polls, it is not possible to combine the results in any meaningful fashion.






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