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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by alentist on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:29PM (#25021408)
> 538 has corrections for bias already. They seem to have worked in this instance

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017810

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by roenxi on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:46PM (#25021573)
You are pointing at evidence that 538 correctly called 11/12 races using statistics, and their confident call on a Biden president withstood a 4-7% swing (!!).

The existence of bias doesn't invalidate their predictions. Everyone knows that polls can be badly off target in a biased way - that isn't a new phenomenon.

When they talk about X% chance of Y being president they should be optimising to the outcome, not the margins.