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I would guess that the vast majority of the population do not take meaningful actions based on election prediction (other than "I might [not] need to actually v
by afiori 4y ago
I would guess that the vast majority of the population do not take meaningful actions based on election prediction (other than "I might [not] need to actually vote").
There are good reasons to have polls and predictions but they are far from necessary.
- ss108 4y agoPeople who work for political campaigns need to know, businesses and investors might like to plan, etc.
- afiori 4y agoYes, but it is not "needed" in the current form. It is needed the same way you need to predict how global trends will be in 6 months: very important for a lot of people, but not an actionable information for most.
- hermiod 4y agoJust because something isn't useful to everyone, doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone. The original claim was that election prediction is useless -- are you willing to concede that election prediction isn't useless?
- nradov 4y agoI made no such claim. I merely stated that this particular election prediction was useless.