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Fooled by Randomness, with the Narrative to Prove It
The election is another example of how outcomes affect narratives – how we craft stories after the fact to conform with what we now know. Consider these headlines which are making wildly sweeping claims, ignoring the random outcome: Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right Revenge of the Forgotten: Class Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were playing with fire when they effectively wrote off white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt The real ‘shy Trump’ vote – how 53% of white women pushed him to victory Meet The Ivanka Voter How Data Failed Us in Calling an ... (full story)
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