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What’s the chance of rain?

9 Oct 2012

…the for-profit weather forecasters rarely predict exactly a 50 percent chance of rain, which might seem wishy-washy and indecisive to consumers. Instead, they’ll flip a coin and round up to 60, or down to 40, even though this makes the forecasts both less accurate and less honest. That is from Nate Silver’s new and excellent [...]
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Tyler Cowen

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