Even if shareholders are prepared to give Holmes the benefit of another few quarters' grace, he has an extremely small margin of error. |
First comes the original measurement, then the actual offset between brackets, then the margin of error. |
That's two or three percentage point difference, which can be well within the margin of error. |
That, basically, is a statistical tie for first, because that's within the margin of error. |
So Bustamante has a three-point lead in a poll with a five-point margin of error. |
The results may be within the margin of error, but the outcome could well be determined by the margin of litigation. |