Election surprise, and three ways of thinking about probability

Background: Hillary Clinton was given a 65% or 80% or 90% chance of winning the electoral college. She lost.

Naive view: The poll-based models and the prediction markets said Clinton would win, and she lost. The models are wrong! CONT.

Andrew Gelman, Columbia U.

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