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Re:Live Presidential Forecast by revelation on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:38PM (#12905463)
That's random, there is no network activity. Screams "black pattern", who on earth randomizes a graph on election results. Come on.
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Re:Live Presidential Forecast by artursapek on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:41PM (#12905469)
NYT is not known for accuracy
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Re:Live Presidential Forecast by carlob on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:51PM (#12905509)
Well in this context, it's good to make it wobble to show people that accuracy is meaningless so far, because we have very low precision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

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