Flawed data fluffed US election polls, says study
Institute for Intelligent Systems looks at lessons the US presidential election holds for SA in 2019, writes Tom Nevin
01 December 2016 - 05:45
Hillary Clinton’s election camp got its prediction algorithms wrong because of overconfidence and emotion, staff at the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Intelligent Systems believe. This led to the inputting of flawed data that delivered off-target results.
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