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To: CatOwner

However, as repeated polls show a similar margin of victory, the effective margin of error is reduced.

Applying a Bayesian approach to interpreting polls is one of the insights of the political scientist Andrew Gelman. Nate Silver based the 538 methodology on Gelman’s work.


12 posted on 09/14/2016 2:01:41 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: oblomov

You are all Deplorable! /s


13 posted on 09/14/2016 2:11:42 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: oblomov
It's what I'm doing, too, for the past faun elections.

-PJ

16 posted on 09/14/2016 2:22:28 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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