Comment by blue_dice on 26/06/2020 at 01:14 UTC

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View submission: i feel totally cynical about what's happening right now

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i'll try to put it more simply for you. if I tell you you have a 2 in 3 chance of rolling a 6 sided die and getting a 3 or higher, and then you roll it and get a 1, does that mean my statement was wrong?

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Comment by [deleted] at 26/06/2020 at 02:50 UTC

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This is a bad comparison because the odds of rolling a 3 or higher are based on mathematics and 538 fucking up the 2016 election predictions were based on people who were obviously lying to the pollsters.