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Tag Archives: demographic proportionality
What is the statistical probability that sortition will result in an accurate proportional representation?
(thanks to Yoram Gat, statistician) Margin of error is not exactly the right term. ‘Margin of error’ is used when using a proportion in a sample to estimate the proportion in the population. In our case the proportion in the … Continue reading