Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ...
by akio on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:56PM
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Princeton had Clinton at a >99% chance in their 2016 election forecast.
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ...
by kadoban on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:01PM
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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.