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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 13, 2020

Categorized
Mathematics

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Alan Lichtman, Data Mining, Donald Trump, Elections, Featured, Helmut Norpoth, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John von Neumann, Merlin Heidemanns, Overfitting data, predictions}

Election Models: Predicting the Past is Easy — and Useless

_{You can seldom see where you are going by looking in a rear-view mirror} _{Gary Smith

July 13, 2020

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Mathematics}

I told my students that I had a model that predicted the popular vote for the the last ten presidential elections (1980–2016) perfectly. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2019

Categorized
Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, Donald Trump, Elections, Google, Hillary Clinton, Robert Epstein}

Prof: Google Must Not Choose the Next President

_{Robert Epstein, a Clinton supporter in 2016, thinks Big Tech meddling is a risk. And, he says, he isn’t planning on suicide} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 24, 2019

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Social Media, Technocracy}

He doesn’t want Silicon Valley to use its near-monopoly power over search engines and social media to manipulate the information available to the lone voter in the booth.