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User Info The Bill To Fix Health Care - Permanently; entered at 2017-04-03 09:10:02
Tickerguy
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Registered: 2007-06-26
One of the first things you learn in Stats class:

An "error" is normally-distributed. Over a large enough sample size (n > 100, typically) an actual error will trend toward zero in aggregate, and very reliably will be within 1SD. Over even larger sample sizes this becomes even more-true. Confidence range shrinks as sample size rises, in other words.

An "error" that always goes one way, especially when the sample size is huge (e.g. n > 10,000) is not an error -- it is fraud.
2017-04-03 09:10:02