Polling women Many years ago, a New York Times Poll on

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Polling women Many years ago, a New York Times Poll on womens issues interviewed 1025 women randomly selected from the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. One question was Many women have better jobs and more opportunities than they did 20 years ago. Do you think women had to give up too much in the process, or not? Forty-eight percent of women in the sample said Yes.10 (a) Th e poll announced a margin of error of 63 percentage points for 95% confi dence in its conclusions. Make a 95% confi dence statement about the percent of all adult women who felt that women had to give up too much. (b) Explain to someone who knows no statistics why we cant just say that 48% of all adult women felt that women had to give up too much. (c) Explain clearly what 95% confi dence means.