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My interpretation of control is fixing all other variables (the ones they mentioned) except for the one being measured (political orientation). If that's not wh

• anigbrowl 6y ago
  In that case I don't understand your original comment, as it describes the sort of mistake that arises when you don't control for other factors, but you appear to accept that they did.
  • cirenehc 6y ago
    My original comment said: > So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy. I meant that even if you control age, gender, ethnicity, a very trivial predictor (i.e., always predicting the majority label) could yield similar performance. What I meant to say was that their model may not perform as well as they made it sound.