FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 days agoAnother Nate Plastic Lhexbear.netimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-down1imageAnother Nate Plastic Lhexbear.netFuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebarrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 days agoHe got famous initially because his model predicted 49/50 states in 2008.
minus-squareOwl [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoIt’d be so easy to replicate that now with AI spam bots. Just make up like 50 guys covering the top 50 most likely results.
minus-squareThordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoAnd he was only slightly less wrong than other pollsters in 2016. He was predicting something like a 75% chance of a Clinton win, while everybody else had her in the 90% range.
He got famous initially because his model predicted 49/50 states in 2008.
It’d be so easy to replicate that now with AI spam bots. Just make up like 50 guys covering the top 50 most likely results.
And he was only slightly less wrong than other pollsters in 2016. He was predicting something like a 75% chance of a Clinton win, while everybody else had her in the 90% range.