A polling agency wants to estimate the proportion of U.S. citizens who support the president's domestic policies. They surveyed 2500 U.S. citizens and found a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions between men and women who support the president's domestic policies as (-0.025 to 0.050) where population 1 is men and population 2 is women. Select the correct interpretation of this result.
A)The interval contains zero which shows that women are more likely than men to disagree with the president's foreign policies.
B)The interval contains zero which shows that men are more likely than women to disagree with the president's foreign policies.
C)The interval does not contain zero which shows that there is no significant difference in the proportions between men and women.
D)The interval contains zero which shows that there is no significant difference in the proportions between men and women.

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The confidence interval from -0.025 to 0.050 includes zero, indicating that the difference in support between men and women could be zero, suggesting no significant difference in their support for the president's domestic policies.

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