Definition of “Overwhelming”
With the recent No votes in France and Holand on the European Union, the news headlines are proclaiming these are “Overwhelming”.
In France, 54.68% of voters voted No, with a turnout of 69.34%. Significantly less than half of the population (37.9%) voted No. [Wikipedia]
Later, in the Netherlands, the No vote was 61.6% on a turnout of [...]
Posted at 18:57 on Thursday 2nd June 2005 in Blog tagged Europe, mathematics, statistics, world_politics, with no comments.