Silver’s Model Blown Out of Water!

According to commenter ‘Gabe’ on Nate Silver’s latest post:

Model held pretty well (using NYT website for result numbers):

PA: Model R +.1, Result R +1, Difference .9

MI: Model D +1.2, Result R +1.4, Difference 2.6

WI Model D +1, Result R +.9, Difference 1.9

NC Model R +1.1, Result R +3, Difference 1.9

GA Model R +1 Result R+2, Difference 1

NV Model R +.6, Result R+5, Difference 4.4

AZ Model R +2.4, Result R+5, Difference 2.6

Uuh! NO!! Although these are (almost) all within $#\pm#$3%, the differences are ALL in the same direction – which has almost no chance of happening if they were truly random.

So Silver’s “gut” feeling was a much better predicter than his actual model.

Source: Comments – The story of Trump’s win was foretold in New York City

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