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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

It's actually not so small. There are hundreds of primary results since 1980, which is enough to empirically measure the shape of the probability distribution. Also, there are theoretical reasons to use fat-tailed distributions in cases of low n's. — PolitiTweet.org

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The data set in terms of results is so small that is zero way to prove if this holds up or just provides more abili… https://t.co/0O6Zxzr70i

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

What would block Bernie's path? —If he were far enough behind the nat'l frontrunner (Biden) that even an IA/NH bounce might not catch him up. —If he were way behind in IA. —If he were way behind another candidate (e.g. Warren) in his "lane". NONE of these are true right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Granted, I don't know how many readers care, but it's because we think carefully about this stuff that we're well calibrated over a very large sample of probabilistic forecasts over the past decade (i.e. our 5% chances really do mean ~5%, historically). https://t.co/8oqu1OmvAz — PolitiTweet.org

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