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Bill Gates Is More Admired Than the Pope

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @01:50AM from the he-can-afford-more-hats dept.

walterbyrd writes "Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll."

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Margin of Error? by celticryan · 2011-01-18 02:09 · Score: 5, Informative

What a horrible poll.

The sample size quoted was 1019. At 95% confidence level, the simple statistical error is about 3%. That puts basically everyone from 2-9 at the same amount of admiration...