The Ask Us team tries to answer as many questions as possible, especially questions that may have a wide interest. We get quite a few questions, and we do our best to answer them all.
What is “margin of error”? We see this term used in surveys and political polls quite often. What does it mean and how is it obtained? Whose error?
From a book often used in the Herald-Leader newsroom titled Numbers in the Newsroom:
Most organizations cannot survey an entire population, so they “sample” part [...]
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I began my research career as a University of Virginia physics librarian. Watergate got me interested in news, and I have been at the Herald-Leader for 28 years. I have a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University and an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University. It's fun to find that one piece of information that makes a story sizzle. If you have a question, I know where to look. E-mail Linda
My mother was a public school librarian. I earned a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky. The Herald-Leader hired me as a news assistant 25 years ago; soon after, I moved to the news research department, where I’ve been ever since. We used to clip newspapers. Now, almost all of our research is online. We've come a long way. E-mail Lu-Ann
