“A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.” ThinkingShowsJobsPercentErrorsCongressGood JobPollsMargins Author:Jay Leno
“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.” YearsEyeEarthBrainFeetAtheismPercentYears AgoToolsSticksErrorsPositive AtheismExperimentsPlusPrecisionZest Author:Carl Sagan
“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.” WorldCountryKidsCareersStudentsCollegeReadyCouplePercentThirdsErrors Author:Jeb Bush
“I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” MindBelieveHumansEnoughCapableSmartPercentErrorsDon't BelieveHuman Mind Author:Ken Wilber
“The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.” CountryStatesResultsStudyWeekPercentErrorsJerseyMarginsNew Jersey Author:Conan O'Brien
“Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.” GamesLostLossPercentBaseballFilledErrorsChampionHopsSeventies Author:Michael Chabon
“My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.” BehindsPercentErrorsAllowingWarningMarginsCalculationsSurgeonsIntervalsCorrespondingTacosCharley DavidsonRadius Book:First Grave on the Right Source: First Grave on the Right