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Wed Aug 12 18:12:07 +0000 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@gelliottmorris You're basically applying a lot of techniques that are (sometimes) appropriate for large data sets to a small data set and it's leading you down some weird paths. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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@gelliottmorris You're still not getting it. Given the nature of election data, you don't want do to too much optimization; that's how you wind up with an overconfident model. I don't really care that much what the model would have said in elections where I already know the answer. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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@gelliottmorris @SethS_D That's sort of begging the question, though. We don't know what the rest of the cycle will look like. Polls were EXTREMELY stable in this year's D primary before they started to become EXTREMELY volatile. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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