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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by akio on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:56PM (#35708258)
Princeton had Clinton at a >99% chance in their 2016 election forecast.
Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by kadoban on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:01PM (#35708961)
Yeah, they used the obviously bad model that each state's results are independent rolls of the dice.

Which, flawed models can still be useful, but I seem to recall them being pretty arrogant about their prediction in 2016 too, before the fact.