A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87.5% accuracy

Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by mywittyname on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:36PM (#23643223)

Uhhhh...This is the dumbest ad article I've read in a while.

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Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by frabert on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:38PM (#23643248)

Talk about overfitting...

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Re:A mathematical formula that predicts US elections with 87... by bnveg on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:19PM (#23647368)

This is an out of sample result. 4 formulas were compared. Sure it may be an overfit, as any machine learning model can be, but the procedure that was used to generate this formula cannot be so easily dismissed.

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