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by fullshark 2134 days ago
I was very unimpressed with his democratic primary model, which he basically fine tuned every week when new data came in in order to get a result that was closer to his own preconceptions of the race.
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> fine tuned every week when new data came in

Yeah, that’s what you’re supposed to do - use new evidence to update your beliefs.

I don't mean he allowed the model to update from new results, I mean the model would update, he'd be unhappy by its results so he'd change it so the outcome reflected his own biases. If you do that you produce a bunch of mathematical rationalizations for probability distributions that you invented from scratch.
Ach, thanks for clarifying.