A Harris Poll found that 54% of American adults do not think thathuman beings de

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A Harris Poll found that 54% of American adults do not think thathuman beings developed from earlier species. The poll's margin oferror was 3%. This means that
A) the poll used a method that gets answer within 3% of the truthabout the population 95% of the time.
B) we can be sure that the % of all adults who feel this way is b/t51% and 57%.
C) if Harris takes another poll using the same method, the resultsof the second poll will lie b/t 51% and 57%.
I dont really just want to know the answer, I want to know how it'sworked. Thanks!

Explanation / Answer

The margin of error in (almost all) publicly reported polls iswith 95% confidence. So, the answer is [A].

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