Political stats to ponder.

Watching Dan Rather Reports on HDNet this evening, Dan had an interview with Nate Silver of Chicago who brings baseball statistics to the presidential campaign over at fivethirtyeight.com. There is quite a bit of material to look at over there but basically it’s a melding pot of all the polls taken every day. Apparently there [...]

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Calling Elections – mathematical wizardry???

So I was sitting in my abode, enjoying the (largely unnecessary) Canadian federal election – assuming that I was in for a couple of hours of  info-tainment.
Polls closed at 9pm and numbers from poling stations started scrolling across the bottom of the screen.  Lots of other pretty graphics elsewhere by the way.
Anyways, preliminary numbers with [...]

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