Imagine that!

#51
#51
rjd970 said:
I guess this would explain why all the Fox polls leading up to the election showed it was extremely close. Right....

Those fox polls couldn't have been more wrong.
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those Fox polls were pretty close on the popular vote. They were much closer than the 7-10 point lead guys. Didn't the spread end up being 52-48 and fox was talking 2-3?
 
#55
#55
TennTradition said:
52.8 - 46.0.....but I suppose that is still rounding. How many significant digits do you want? :p
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just take it out as far as Pi goes, then I'll buy it.

My last recollection from election night was 52-48, but that probably excluded the whack job left coast.
 
#56
#56
BigPapaVol said:
just take it out as far as Pi goes, then I'll buy it.

My last recollection from election night was 52-48, but that probably excluded the whack job left coast.
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It lacked votes in Oregon, for sure, because of their mail-in. Counts were still going on elsewhere as well....they are pretty much all done now, so the numbers shouldn't change much.
 
#57
#57
BigPapaVol said:
those Fox polls were pretty close on the popular vote. They were much closer than the 7-10 point lead guys. Didn't the spread end up being 52-48 and fox was talking 2-3?
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Everything I have seen shows the final result to be in the 53 to 46 spread for the popular vote (~7 points). Wiki, real clear politics, cnn, and foxnews all came in with these final numbers.

Generally speaking, Fox polls made it more of a horse race than it really was. A professor of political science from Fordham University did a final tally on which polls came closest to predicting the final results and ranked them:

accuracy of election polls - Google Search

I obviously can't comment on his methodology because this is just a results page, but the results show out of 23 polls, Foxnews was ranked 10th accurate. Fox did better than CBS, ABC, and NBC, but was less accurate than CNN or AP. Rasmussen and Pew were the only two to nail the spread exactly. Newsweek was the worst. It looks pretty good. The only funny thing I see about the results is it shows dailykos being more accurate than Foxnews, which, despite the bias of foxnews, it is nothing on the order of the biased crap at dailykos. I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.
 
#58
#58
BigPapaVol said:
just take it out as far as Pi goes, then I'll buy it
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3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609....ect

There used to be a website you could go to and get pi to a million digits but I can't seem to find it.
 
#59
#59
rjd970 said:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609....ect

There used to be a website you could go to and get pi to a million digits but I can't seem to find it.
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I would imagine that these poll numbers would converge well before this many digits...but we could see, I suppose.
 
#60
#60
rjd970 said:
Everything I have seen shows the final result to be in the 53 to 46 spread for the popular vote (~7 points). Wiki, real clear politics, cnn, and foxnews all came in with these final numbers.

Generally speaking, Fox polls made it more of a horse race than it really was. A professor of political science from Fordham University did a final tally on which polls came closest to predicting the final results and ranked them:

accuracy of election polls - Google Search

I obviously can't comment on his methodology because this is just a results page, but the results show out of 23 polls, Foxnews was ranked 10th accurate. Fox did better than CBS, ABC, and NBC, but was less accurate than CNN or AP. Rasmussen and Pew were the only two to nail the spread exactly. Newsweek was the worst. It looks pretty good. The only funny thing I see about the results is it shows dailykos being more accurate than Foxnews, which, despite the bias of foxnews, it is nothing on the order of the biased crap at dailykos. I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.
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I was wrong. Explained to TT and never bought any of the polls. All were dead right and dead wrong at different times.
 
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