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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by notafraudster on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:47PM (#23083353)
That MOE would be extremely conservative given that the proportion of interest is far from p=0.5; the classical MOE would be +- 1.96 * sqrt(0.9 * 0.1 / 1200) = +- 1.697% -- but of course it's not a representative sample as you mention.
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