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Re:An election forecast that's 50-50 is not "giving up." on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:03PM (#43333833)
The problem is using statistical models at all for predicting the probability of one time events. (elections are every 4 years, but those future models will be different).

You can't validate such a model, and it's not useful since any upset victory was "accounted for" simply because its possibility was named.

Re:Why Democrats Won't Throw a Real Punch on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:37PM (#43131929)
Even if this is true (it's not), you're telling me that Biden was ineffective at foreign policy.
Re:WTF Happened in 1971? on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:14PM (#42714797)
Yes, and breaking that final gold-dollar link to fix the overspending issue caused productivity to be disconnected from the money supply, thus allowing more of the value capture to happen to those who could create equity or be loaned money.