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A comment on Allan J. Lichtman's election prediction system.

Re:Allan J. Lichtman's election prediction system by klodolph on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:34PM (#12819837)
And that's why we're all worried about this thing called "overfitting".

I generally hate it when people post XKCD comics in response to more serious posts, but this one contains a compiled list of presidents who were elected despite some precedent saying they wouldn't: https://xkcd.com/1122/

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Re:Allan J. Lichtman's election prediction system by cs702 on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:38PM (#12819893)
The Washington Post should be embarrassed for publishing this silliness... I'm tempted to flag the OP.

PS. The Washington Post's editors may want to read this Washington Post article from 2012, titled "the problem of overfitting elections, in one brilliant cartoon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/18/the-p...

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