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Comment by Jordan-117

8 hours ago

Whenever people knock them for mis-calling a race, the thing I always refer to (or would, if ABC hadn't burned the site down) is their "Check Our Work" page, which sorts all of their predictions across politics, sports, etc., bucketed by the odds they gave, and then showed the percentage of all outcomes that were accurately predicted. It was remarkably accurate -- i.e., races where a candidate was given 65% odds were indeed won by that candidate approximately 65% of the time. This was true from the surefire 95% odds (which did fail about 5% of the time) down to the 5% longshots (which pulled an upset about 5% of the time).

Here's the last archived version of the page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250306183754/https://projects....