A Stunning Non Sequitur
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Negative prophet
Apparently, Punxsutawney Phil
is right only 39% of the time
. Since he's predicting an outcome of a binary variable (either "long winter" or "early spring"), this makes him a valuable expert: if you bet against Phil, you'll be right 61% of the time.
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