How Job Approval Ratings & Polls are Calculated

To date, votes for polls and approval ratings have only been recorded from internet visitors.

Each vote is calculated on a scale of 1 to 10 points/stars therefore each point represents 10 percent so the minimum vote any politician may receive is 10 percent or 1 star.  The maximum job approval rating any politician may receive, from one vote or all votes, is 100 percent or 10 points out of 10 or 10 stars.

The overall or final approval rating for each politician is calculated by dividing the total points by number of votes cast. This approval rating may then be represented in multiple ways, for example; 3 stars out of 10, 30%, 3/10 and so forth.

Margin of error on polls and job approval ratings varies between plus or minus 2%-8%. The larger the sample is, the smaller the margin of error.  For polls and approval ratings that have 2401 votes or above the margin of error is estimated to be plus or minus 2%. For polls and approval ratings that have approximately 1067 votes the margin of error is estimated to be plus or minus 3%. See also;

• Weisstein, Eric W., “Margin of Error” from MathWorld.
• Stokes, Lynne; Tom Belin (2004). “What is a Margin of Error?” (PDF)
• NIST: Selecting Sample Sizes

Each visitor is allowed one vote for each politician and visitors are identified by IP address and or cookie.

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