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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.
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.