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To: propertius
...3.25 percent chance ...

Exaggerated precision alert.

9 posted on 10/27/2004 9:24:03 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

How so?

I want to see his numbers because the article says that there were 17 out of 1,024 ways that a tie could occur in the 10 battleground States. That would be 17/1024 = 1.66% if my calculator is correct.

So he must have another set of numbers with Hawaii added to the mix, etc...

The problem with his 3.25% statement is that just doing the division assumes that every way that a tie could occur are equally probable, which is NOT true...


dvwjr


28 posted on 10/27/2004 11:05:44 AM PDT by dvwjr
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