On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote:

> The  sampling distribution of a proportion is a
> bell shaped curve but a wider and flatter one than maybe you would
> intuit.

<Pedantry>

There are a lot of assumptions behind this. These assumptions are so
common place that we tend to forget that they are assumptions and we
should check their validity every single time.

>From Lewis' data, there is no way to know whether these standard
assumptions are appropriate for the data set.
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