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They do not only predict top-line presidential results, but every race, in every state, for president, House, and Senate. Non-independence is accounted for in t
by matt4077 8y ago
They do not only predict top-line presidential results, but every race, in every state, for president, House, and Senate. Non-independence is accounted for in the model, so they have no qualms about you judging them by the calibration of their predictions, I. e. You want roughly 60% of their “60%” forecasts to be right, and 40% to be wrong. If all of the races they predict 60/40 go to the more likely candidate, they themselves consider this a failure: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirtyeights-2018-midterm-forecasts-did/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirtyeights-20...