When models break down
Why Helmut Norpoth’s election forecast is so fraught with errors
Confirmation bias is a hell of a phenomenon. This search for confirmatory evidence—or even the tendency to warp facts into confirmatory evidence—is even stronger when one has staked her professional …
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