Rauner's approval rating at 36%

[Associate Justice PiT]

Seems like a garbage poll.

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Ok, so 100 - 31.4 who don't approve - 23.1 who don't know sh!t = 45.5. What do the other 9% think? This seems poorly done in any case, as a poll taken of a newly-elected Governor shouldn't have so many iffy people in it; nobody really cares what non-voters think.

     At least they had the courtesy of giving tenths of a percentage point, so we can tell immediately that the poll is garbage and to be ignored.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Seems like a garbage poll.

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Ok, so 100 - 31.4 who don't approve - 23.1 who don't know sh!t = 45.5. What do the other 9% think? This seems poorly done in any case, as a poll taken of a newly-elected Governor shouldn't have so many iffy people in it; nobody really cares what non-voters think.

     At least they had the courtesy of giving tenths of a percentage point, so we can tell immediately that the poll is garbage and to be ignored.

Hey PiT, you should know that a measured value of 45.5% ± 3.1% is an acceptable measurement. Two significant figures are widely used to quote errors. For example the current official value of the mass of the muon is 105.6583715 ± 0.0000035 MeV. The error on most polls should include one decimal point, so there's nothing wrong with decimal points on poll results as along as the reader understands the nature of the quoted error.

     How come then polls that give decimal places are typically crummy?