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by beardedetim 1457 days ago
> If you only make enough enough predictions then some of those will turn out predict the future correctly.

If we have a coin and we say "It's 50% chance it lands heads" and it lands tails, were we wrong?

If we have a 20-sided die and we say "It has a 5% chance of landing on 20" and it lands on 20, were we wrong?

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Depends, is the coin a Democratic party establishment candidate and the predictor part of the liberal politico-media complex trying to prime an audience?