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An Amateur’s Predictions for 2020

October 31, 2020 · 10:00 am ET · Leave a Comment

This piece for members is by David T.S. Jonas.

There’s no reason to think that popular electoral forecasts like those at The Economist or at FiveThirtyEight won’t serve you better than an underqualified observer’s qualitative approach, but since my goal is chiefly to guard against hindsight bias, I thought I would offer these predictions for 2020.

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