Re:Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking ...
by thisisimpo on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:01AM
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But if you look at the hundreds of polls that all had Hillary winning by a wide margin, you can realize that there is a major problem with them.
You can't take the result of one election and decide if Nate Silver is right or wrong in his probability. Instead, you have to take his many predictions and see how accurate they are; do his 90% predictions come true 90% of the time, do his 80% predictions come true 80% of the time, etc.
You can't take one time where he said Hillary had a 70% chance of winning, and say he was wrong because she lost.