Historian who predicted 9 of the last 10 election results says Democrats shouldn't drop Joe Biden - eviltoast

He got 2000 “wrong”… Or did he?

  • Cosmos7349@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hey math people, if they all selected 1 of the 2 main candidates for every election, and they all selected different candidates, how many historians would it take to cover every combination for 10 years? (bonus points to see how many would take before guaranteeing someone could get 9/10)

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      4 months ago

      Note that many of those elections were easier to guess than just flipping a coin, so you don’t really need to cover every potential combination to cover like 95% of the likely outcomes.