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Re:Code for The Economist's election model for 2020 by glial on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:29AM (#24259938)
> fine tuned every week when new data came in

Yeah, that’s what you’re supposed to do - use new evidence to update your beliefs.

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Re:Code for The Economist's election model for 2020 by fullshark on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:55PM (#24265409)
I don't mean he allowed the model to update from new results, I mean the model would update, he'd be unhappy by its results so he'd change it so the outcome reflected his own biases. If you do that you produce a bunch of mathematical rationalizations for probability distributions that you invented from scratch.
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Re:Code for The Economist's election model for 2020 by glial on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:57AM (#24268228)
Ach, thanks for clarifying.
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