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Bok
11-15-2012, 07:33 PM
Aside from the main outcome of last week’s US presidential election, the vote tallies also promised to vindicate or vilify a cadre of blogging statisticians. For at least the past three election cycles, some bloggers have predicted the winner of the presidential election in each state with an accuracy that seemed to border on wizardry. Their secret? Aggregating dozens of national and state polls conducted throughout the election campaign, and applying statistics.
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