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In what sense can you say someone 'predicted' something when all the circumstances of the event in question changed after the prediction was made? That seems a pretty strange claim.
The past record could be a good sign of accuracy but the particular reasoning about this election doesn't make sense to me, unless their claim is that nothing in the last year and a half could have mattered at all.
Take note of the fact that something's being sold here.
There could be 100 trends but two or three of them dominate all else. Picking out these key trends is very valuable information!
I think it's a little like investing. You can draw up a 300 page PDF on market analysis with dozens of incomprehensible graphs, throw supercomputers and humanity's top minds at the problem, only to fall well behind 'Nvidia = AI and AI is enormously powerful' or 'Iphones are great, Apple really knows what they're doing'. A simple thesis can easily beat a complicated, measured, nuanced analysis that uses all the data and considers 1000 points of information.
Sure, but that doesn't imply that the simple thesis has more predictive power the next time a coin is flipped. Maybe the Nvidia people got it right the the first time, but you can bet on the fact that when it does inevitably become the bad choice, there will still be people holding onto that simple thesis incorrectly. And the only way to disabuse themselves of that incorrect choice would have been to consider other points of information.
As I said, the past record here is the only thing that gives me pause when claiming that this prediction wasn't as great as claimed. That is by far the best selling point to me, not how close the exact number was this time without considering the nuances
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