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By Kim on October 22, 2008
When I first discovered FiveThirtyEight.Com (courtesy of Down and Out of Sài Gòn on one of the American election threads here at LP, if I recall correctly), I thought of Nate Silver as America’s Possum. Coincidentally, there’s a profile of [...]
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By Kim on September 18, 2008
Oks, there’s got to be some way to work this into a drinking game. Just to prove that political tragics are rooly cool like the kidz on West Wing and not strange nerds really. Possum has enabled a feature on [...]
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By Kim on August 24, 2008
Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down: Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.
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By Guest Poster on August 12, 2008
MB writes: I’ve always been of the view that the “wisdom of the crowd” hypothesis doesn’t work very well in the case of prediction markets for elections – because the number of insiders who have relevant information not available to [...]
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B… b… bounce?
By Kim on September 18, 2008
Oks, there’s got to be some way to work this into a drinking game. Just to prove that political tragics are rooly cool like the kidz on West Wing and not strange nerds really. Possum has enabled a feature on [...]
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