Idiom
statistical tie
Meaning
A situation in which the difference in popularity of two options in a poll is less than the margin of error.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The two candidates are in a statistical tie.”
“Because the poll results are within the margin of error, the race is currently a statistical tie.”
“Although the challenger leads by one percentage point, the survey indicates a statistical tie that makes predicting the final outcome impossible.”
Examples
simple
“The two candidates are in a statistical tie.”
contextual
“Because the poll results are within the margin of error, the race is currently a statistical tie.”
complex
“Although the challenger leads by one percentage point, the survey indicates a statistical tie that makes predicting the final outcome impossible.”
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