The Importance Of Abolishing The Electoral College

As can be seen in the figure above, majority does not support getting rid of the Electoral college. 20 college students from UTSA were asked the survey question: “Do you think the Electoral College should be abolished? Please answer ‘yes,’ or ‘no.’” These students were asked this question from September 22nd-October 3rd, and were all asked the same exact question each time. 25% of students approved of abolishing the Electoral College. 75% of students did not support the abolishment of the Electoral College. The Margin of Error for this survey is 21.91. The population size of UTSA (29,000) and the number of those surveyed (20), were both taken and used to calculate the Margin of Error based on a 95% confidence interval. If we conducted this survey 100 times, 95 of those times the percentage supporting the Electoral College would fall within the range of 3.01% and 46.91%. These percentages came from taking the approval percentage and adding/subtracting the Margin of Error. …show more content…
This effected the 95% confidence interval as well, making a large gap between the small numbers. Because the low end of our confidence interval, 3.01%, is below 50%, we cannot conclude that majority of the student body wants to abolish the Electoral College. The difference between the percentages supporting and not supporting getting rid of the Electoral College is statistically significant because the gap is very wide. If there was change in sample size, it can still be concluded that UTSA students do not want to abolish the Electoral College but leave it as it