In the current election cycle, many media reports about polls are not including information about the margin of error.

Hold your breath and make sure you vote, because the result is likely to be a squeaker.

In the current election cycle, many media reports about polls are not including information about the margin of error.

We get statistics like these thrown at us every day. A few years ago, we were told that a woman over 30 is more likely to get struck by lightning than find a husband.

In reality, it is only for a single question, even though my research shows that many of us, 44%, incorrectly think a reported margin pertains to the entire poll.

In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you’ll hear the phrase “within the poll ...

NBC News’ Carrie Dann explains how we get our polling numbers together and breaks down the margin of error.

In the last year, statistics have been unusually important in the news. How accurate is the COVID-19 test you or others are using? How do researchers know the effectiveness of new therapeutics for ...

Stats blog: Statistics are regularly presented as fact, but, as with a few stories this week, the margin for error often makes them meaningless ...

But we have a margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. What that means is if we kept taking samples, 95 percent of the time, we’ll get an estimate in that range of 46 to 52 percent.