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Old 03-01-2017, 16:54
MajorZero
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Half would be 50%, so the leave majority was only 2% = 600k votes out 34m cast, statistically irrelevant. Sadly, your offensive reference to Berlin and jackboots indicates the vacuum and prejudice that exists between your ears. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Actually it was exactly 1,269,501 majority for leave. I think well over a million difference is very statistically relevant,
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:35
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Actually it was exactly 1,269,501 majority for leave. I think well over a million difference is very statistically relevant,
Statistics : the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data....

thus, an absolute number, however big, has no value in statistical analysis unless compared with (at least) one other number.

While I'm at it - "Actually it was exactly 1,269,501 majority"

it is highly unlikely that the vote counting process was absolutely free from error,
but,
given the closeness of the 'for' and 'against' votes numbers
it is highly likely that the errors in the count were, to the first order, of little statistical relevance.

The 600k figure comes from the result that would have been the case if half the 1,269,501 majority (634,751) had cast their vote in the other direction -
errors in counting not withstanding.
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