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The 2016 election polls are not wrong. You are.

Posted November 10, 2016 in Random Things

 Folks,

You need to put this to rest and focus your energy on making things better. The polls were not ever wrong. All the polls showed you was the *likelihood* of an outcome. No one ever said Trump would categorically lose. The majority of the polls just said that it was most likely he would not win, but there was always a very reasonable chance he would. If you are diagnosed with a disease and you are told that with 100% certainty you will pass away in a month, the odds are not in your favor. But if you are told you have a 28.6% chance of not passing away you will walk away thinking “That’s good, I have a chance”.

So please quit obsessing over the polls. 

 

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