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They work better than chance but not much better When you're dealing with razor thin margins in individual electoral districts, and 300M people, even slightly
by zzalpha 10y ago
They work better than chance but not much better
When you're dealing with razor thin margins in individual electoral districts, and 300M people, even slightly better than chance can be pretty powerful.
- pesenti 10y agoYes but so are many other factors. In a tight election you can attribute the win to a plethora of factors, doesn't make each of them more meaningful. Plus the profiling itself not being very reliable, I have big doubt as to their ability to change people's opinion based on that.
- pjmorris 10y agoRazor thin margins seems to lead to a multitude of arguments for how a variety of things could have swayed the election. None of these things explain why the election was close, but that seems like a much more important thing to understand.