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  • HoraceH Offline
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    I'm assuming the italics indicate the word is strictly defined as a certain range of percentages.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • HoraceH Horace

      I'm assuming the italics indicate the word is strictly defined as a certain range of percentages.

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      @Horace said in Trends:

      I'm assuming the italics indicate the word is strictly defined as a certain range of percentages.

      Strictly is a bit debatable.

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            The only things I can think of is a rounding difference or editorial disputes…

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            • HoraceH Offline
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              Rounding would be my guess, but that indicates they are not careful with their code. They need to round before comparing to their defined ranges. Then there is no discrepancy between the number you see and the number used to get the category. I write scientific software and I know these things from painful experience.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • HoraceH Horace

                Rounding would be my guess, but that indicates they are not careful with their code. They need to round before comparing to their defined ranges. Then there is no discrepancy between the number you see and the number used to get the category. I write scientific software and I know these things from painful experience.

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                @Horace I’m no expert but I doubt it’s rounding. These are Monte Carlo analyses after all. I’m guessing editorial disputes about what to do about the margin of error.

                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                -Cormac McCarthy

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                  @Horace I’m no expert but I doubt it’s rounding. These are Monte Carlo analyses after all. I’m guessing editorial disputes about what to do about the margin of error.

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                  @jon-nyc said in Trends:

                  @Horace I’m no expert but I doubt it’s rounding. These are Monte Carlo analyses after all. I’m guessing editorial disputes about what to do about the margin of error.

                  They have a fresh discussion every time about what 54.95% means? The italics seem to indicate a formalized category. I looked on the website but didn’t find definitions for the italicized terms.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    If you folks are talking about the FiveThirtyEight projections and terminology, note that they also have three different “models”, {Lite, Classic, Deluxe}, each with increasingly more human/expert “adjustments” added to polling data. Lots of potential to complicate their definitions for terms like “lean,” “toss up,” and “dead heat.”

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                      It has to be a rounding thing…

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                        Uh oh!

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                          Speaking of trends, O’Dea in Colorado has just pulled into toss-up territory on RCP… https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/co/colorado_senate_odea_vs_bennet-7773.html

                          Bennet was a double digit favorite a few weeks ago…

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                            Wow, they're calling NH, AZ and Nevada for the GOP

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                @George-K said in Trends:

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                                That’s their final, too.

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