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Aids Videos Newsletters Join71,700 other iSixSigma newsletter subscribers: MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2016 Font Size Login Register Six Sigma confidence interval standard deviation Tools & Templates Sampling/Data Margin of Error and Confidence Levels Made Simple Tweet Margin of Error and Confidence Levels Made Simple Pamela Hunter 9 A survey is a valuable confidence interval central limit theorem assessment tool in which a sample is selected and information from the sample can then be generalized to a larger population. Surveying has been likened to taste-testing soup – a few spoonfuls tell what the whole pot tastes like. The key to the validity of any survey is randomness. Just as the soup must be stirred in order for the few
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spoonfuls to represent the whole pot, when sampling a population, the group must be stirred before respondents are selected. It is critical that respondents be chosen randomly so that the survey results can be generalized to the whole population. How well the sample represents the population is gauged by two important statistics – the survey's margin of error and confidence level. They tell us how well the spoonfuls represent the entire pot. For example, a survey may have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent at a 95 percent level of confidence. These terms simply mean that if the survey were conducted 100 times, the data would be within a certain number of percentage points above or below the percentage reported in 95 of the 100 surveys. In other words, Company X surveys customers and finds that 50 percent of the respondents say its customer service is "very good." The confidence level is cited as 95 percent plus or minus 3 percent. This information means that if the survey were conducted 100 time
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