<p>Aughh, haven't you guys ever seen how tiny real life samples are? Or taken stats? It doesn't matter that 5% is small (in fact, it's ridiculously huge!).</p>
<p>At a confidence level of 95%, interval of +-5%, and population of 10,000,000, you need merely 38,269 people. That's 0.3%. Also, think about the fact that this is USH; what would be the point of asking a question solely based on math - the point is the poll focused on wealthy white men, and ignored Roosevelt's primary audience. Case closed.</p>
<p>Edit: And I did answer Chicago. Christ, and learn to take being wrong for once, ya cocky oiegjlkwef.</p>
<p>Karch, I think you need to chill out rotfl, its a test we all got things wrong, please be semi-polite, I never said I was right, I was just arguing my point and accepting that it was possibly incorrect, grow up please</p>
<p>I remember from class that there was the Truman election, and polls predicted everything wrong b/c the pollers used telephones, etc., thus misrepresenting the real diversity of the voting population since they only polled the rich people. So if this was true for Truman, even fewer people had telephones during FDR, and FDR was popular with the common man; the answer is that the poll was biased based on the way it was done.</p>
<p>The last post was mostly directed towards GinPA, but also MLT07, I guess:
"really karch...im pretty sure you dont know what youre talking about...did you answer Pittsburgh for the railroad question?"</p>
<p>Well, it's one thing when people get things wrong, and it's another if they themselves are jackasses 'bout it & drag it on for the 24th page. As have you been, so learn to take your wrong answers and eat em. Pretty please!</p>
<p>I didnt say that k thanks, and why don't you just say something like, oh I thought it differently then or something instead of just fueling the fire. </p>
<p>Anyway, yea supposedly you can get -9 raw and get an 800, i think im right around -8 or 9</p>
<p>They will throw out the railroad question...both cities had population booms and industrial growth due to railroads. It's a fact. And debating which one had more is trivial because the question asked which city experience growth in population due to railroads.</p>
<p>As for the 5% question, it was definitely a bias. They went through auto records, and at that time, only upper and upper-middle class people had cars AKA anti-New Dealers.</p>
<p>Yea I really hope they throw that out, and the bias might be right b/c i kinda skimmed the Q and didnt really see what they were talking about w/ the phonebooks.</p>
<p>I doubt they will through any question out. I sounds like there was a majority answer for every question discussed on this thread. But don't worry, that was obviously a difficult one; you can still get like 6 more wrong and walk away with an 800!</p>
<p>How about the Q with the slave quarters? I skipped over the answer about slaves still living close to their former location b/c there were white boxes of slaves of the old plantation, and dark boxes that I took to be slaves from other places. :( I think I read wrong and made a really stupid blunder...</p>