Norman
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so you think the forecast is inaccurate?Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump - forecast and expected margin of victory - more details
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Who’s ahead in each state and by how much
Our win probabilities come from simulating the election 20,000 times, which produces a distribution of possible outcomes for each state. Here are the expected margins of victory. The closer the dot is to the center line, the tighter the race. And the wider the bar, the less certain the model is about the outcome.
Garbage in, garbage out.
The undeniable fact of modeling.
Plus, the model is wrong in the first place...
I would have credibility on simulations only if I myself coded them or the model and the data was shared publicly. The model is most likely based on the polls and adds some randomness based on the variance...
Absolutely. Garbage into a garbage model (which we have no knowledge about) equals garbage out.