Maybe now is a good time to distinguish between someone who is good at statistics, and someone who is good at statistics for a journalist?
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Replying to @Metlandia
you mean like when Nate Silver told everyone that HC was not a runaway winner?
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Replying to @realMaxCastle
That's not really my point, tho. My point is that there are open questions about what %s even refer to w/unrepeatable events
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Replying to @Metlandia
Maybe, but I suspicious of any argument that assumes humans are unique little snowflakes and that behavior can't be predicted.
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Replying to @realMaxCastle
As I said, the theory behind probability has been pursued by everyone from Leibniz to Keynes to Heisenberg
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Replying to @Metlandia
Not sure the theory of the monad is going to get us there.
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Replying to @realMaxCastle
Um, Leibniz created calculus, dude, and the modern concept ofprobability
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Replying to @Metlandia
No shit. I'd say that I've read my Leibniz than you (graduate school and all). Maybe turn down the condescension. It doesn't help
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Replying to @realMaxCastle
Haha, sure. "graduate school and all" not condescending at all. Bye.
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