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petraeus
on April 26, 2019
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How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?
Can anyone explain how 538 got the last election so wrong?
Its quite obvious in hindsight their model is flawed, but Im not understanding how is it flawed.
fourmajor
on April 26, 2019
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If you're referring to either the midterms or the 2016 presidential election, they didn't get either particularly wrong.
KeenFox
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Did they? As far as I can recall 538 has always been clear that they deal in probabilities, not binary predictions. They gave him a small chance of winning for a reason, and it turned out chaos favored one of the low odds scenarios.
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Its quite obvious in hindsight their model is flawed, but Im not understanding how is it flawed.