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2016 Postmortem

Johnny2X2X

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2. Silver has a program that spits out numbers

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2016, 12:14 PM

Nov 2016

He inputs polls, and it outputs a %. Nate is a slave to his model and he's not going to change it one bit. His model trended down for Hillary for a week and now it's reversed itself. Has zero to do with Nate's opinion and I think he shouldn't be defending it at all because he seems to be emotionally attached to it now.

It's a model, none are perfect, but you can't just change them mid election season or people will accuse you of bias.

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Remember when we despaired because Clinton dropped... [View all] LAS14 Nov 2016 OP

LOL at the Pavlovian response.... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #1

Silver has a program that spits out numbers Johnny2X2X Nov 2016 #2

Nom! Pellets! Kber Nov 2016 #3

I use it to find state polls ...his model is faulty...not useful for anything else. Demsrule86 Nov 2016 #4