What Does the Use of Paul Revere's Phrase-"One If by Land;

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Short Answer

What does the use of Paul Revere's phrase-"One if by land; two if by sea"-mean in the context of a discussion of the earliest human settlement of the New World?

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Definitions:

Population Proportions

The ratio of members in a population that have a particular attribute over the total number of members in the population.

Point Estimate

A single value or statistic that is used to estimate the value of a population parameter.

Population Proportions

The fraction or percentage of a population that exhibits a specific characteristic or attribute.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, providing a measure of the precision of the estimated population parameter.