Sums, eh?

[davywavy]

According to the Daily Mirror someone had left on the train, 54% of Scots will vote no, 40% yes, and 7% don't know.

Right you are.

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[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

There was a Soviet constituency where Stalin got well over a hundred per cent of the votes in... I think the late 1940s. The official explanation was that Stalin was so overwhelmingly popular that "people from neighbouring constituencies" had flocked there and voted for him just for the joy of voting for him.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Alex Salmond has his story all lined up then.

[drplokta]

Nothing wrong with that, given that they're rounding to the nearest percent. It will be something like 53.6% no, 39.7% yes and 6.7% don't know. Rounding errors often cause rounded-off numbers to fail to add up to their nominal total.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I do actually know that, but I'm allowed to be amused aren't I?

[(Anonymous)]

They could have said ' the remainder don't know' if they had any sense at all...