The Art of Elections Forecasting 101
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ideonexus writes "Years ago Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, a blog seeking to educate the public about elections forecasting, established his model as one of the most accurate in existence, rising from a fairly unknown statistician working in baseball to one of the most respected names in election forecasting. In this article he describes all the factors that go into his predictions. A fascinating overview of the process of modeling a chaotic system."
Re:Doesn't Matter (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, he is. But he is still the best republican president we have had in a century.
Re:It's all about the money (Score:5, Funny)