Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s

Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:06PM (#13330305)

Just because you're surprised, doesn't mean it was "the people". You can't have an Electoral College system in which shuffling Toledo across state lines changes the electoral outcome and credit the people for political outcomes.

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Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:08PM (#13330319)

Are Michiganders still angry about that?

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Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:15PM (#13330387)

Not that I know of, but the point is that our system ought to be robust against historical and statistical flukes. If you're going to decide elections via first-past-the-post at all, you should at least make the election pass a 95% likelihood hypothesis test for difference-of-means or something.

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Re:Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 4... by wcarron on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:04PM (#13331379)

I''m of the same sentiment, but I feel that even more rigor and a smaller p value should be demanded from our election methods. 99% seems like a nice number.

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