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Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do, a new AP-NORC poll shows (apnews.com)
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[–] idoubtit 1 points 1 year ago

Actually 1000 is a good number for a sample. It narrows your margin of error to around 3%. If it is truly randomly selected people. But that's the hard part. How you sample skews the results. For example, sampling via land line random phone numbers means you get much older people. Sampling on college campuses means younger, etc.