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Margin of error

Also called: MOE

ELI5

A statistical range expressing sampling uncertainty under specified assumptions.

Used in conversation

“Can we show the uncertainty around margin of error instead of presenting one clean number?”

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.