Weird! When I click on that link, there's no predictions for who's going to win the 2020 presidential election, which is quite unlike what they did in 2016. I wonder why?
See my link below. I was referring to MSNBC which actually published a 99% prediction. New York Times was at 85%. 538 at least had the dignity to stop doing predictions.
15% and 1% are not similar predictions. 15% is roughly the probability of throwing a D6 and getting a 6, that is, fairly unlikely but very possible. 1% is roughly the probability of throwing three D6's and getting either 6-6-6 or 5-5-5, i.e. extremely unlikely.
I'm not sure it's really very useful to assign probabilities to election outcomes, since they're rare, one-off, highly unpredictable events. But predicting that something will happen with probability 85%, and then it not happening, is not an inherently bad prediction. Iirc the 99% one was pretty stupid and made some obviously flawed assumptions.
Also I think 538 just haven't got theirs ready yet. There's no way Nate Pewter can resist building a wildly overcomplicated model that basically just outputs "yeah, the person who's leading the polls will probably win, but we don't know for sure" in a numerical form that he knows most people don't understand.
Clinton has 98% chance of winning right?
A 16 percent chance of a Trump presidency isn’t nothing — as we’ve pointed out before, it’s about the same as the chances of losing a “game” of Russian roulette. And 15 percent is about the same chance we gave the San Antonio Spurs of beating the Golden State Warriors last night — the Spurs won by 29 points.
Same network
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Weird! When I click on that link, there's no predictions for who's going to win the 2020 presidential election, which is quite unlike what they did in 2016. I wonder why?
Learned from their mistakes.
lmao I don't think liberals ever learn, mon ami.
538 gave Clinton a 70% chance of winning on Election Day. It was 90% before the Comey Letter.
there wasn't anything wrong with the polls
See my link below. I was referring to MSNBC which actually published a 99% prediction. New York Times was at 85%. 538 at least had the dignity to stop doing predictions.
15% and 1% are not similar predictions. 15% is roughly the probability of throwing a D6 and getting a 6, that is, fairly unlikely but very possible. 1% is roughly the probability of throwing three D6's and getting either 6-6-6 or 5-5-5, i.e. extremely unlikely.
I'm not sure it's really very useful to assign probabilities to election outcomes, since they're rare, one-off, highly unpredictable events. But predicting that something will happen with probability 85%, and then it not happening, is not an inherently bad prediction. Iirc the 99% one was pretty stupid and made some obviously flawed assumptions.
Also I think 538 just haven't got theirs ready yet. There's no way Nate Pewter can resist building a wildly overcomplicated model that basically just outputs "yeah, the person who's leading the polls will probably win, but we don't know for sure" in a numerical form that he knows most people don't understand.