:::Hubbardaie, you are obviously hopefully confused. Below ("Dear DCStats and ERosa") I expound the correct frequentist interpretation of classical confidence intervals. PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. The fundamental mistake you are making is that you are forgetting that a confidence interval is a random interval. And that probabilistic statements about the confidence level are probabilistic statements about that random interval, not probabilistic statements about a particular realization of that random interval. darin 69.45.178.143