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by gdfasfklshg4 2668 days ago
> The odds of both of those people entering the same piece of data incorrectly is tiny.

This is just not correct. There may be a systematic reason why they are making a mistake (e.g. a miss-pronounced word) in which case increasing the confidence intervals does not increase the accuracy. Check out the concepts of accuracy, precision etc from physical sciences.