In a washington post/kaiser family foundation poll conducted from january through march 2015, 46% of adults (ages 17-26) who attended college during the past 4 years say it's unclear whether sexual activity when both people have not given explicit agreement sexual assault. the survey methodology section states that the margin of error is 3.5% at the 959 confidence level. what does this margin of error tell you about the results of this poll? we are 95% confident that the sample proportion is off by 3.5%. we are confident that 95% of the responses are within 3.5% of the population proportion. we are 95% confident that the population proportion is within 3.5% of the sample proportion of 46% we are confident that population proportion is within 3.5% of the sample proportion of 46