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They say numbers don’t lie. But people can lie about numbers.On Monday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy issued a press release trumpeting his popularity with Hispanic voters, citing a poll from the well-respected Siena College Research Institute as evidence.What Levy neglected to mention, though, was that the statistics supposedly proving his “popularity” among Latinos came from a subset of a larger poll. That subset was composed of just 29 people, a sampling size with a “very large margin of error,” according to Siena College. The director of the research institute said it would be “inappropriate” to highlight information from such a small subset, and that at least 100 people would need to be polled for a subset to have any validity.As a practiced politician, Steve Levy must have known that the statistics were invalid. But he chose to distort the truth, glossing over years of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino policies and rhetoric. While Suffolk residents are clamoring for solutions to hate crime and a broken immigration system, all they’re getting is smoke and mirrors.
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