Alexander Lukashenko, who in 2013 was awarded an Ig Nobel Peace prize, has announced that he will again and still be President of his country. BBC News reports, on August 10, 2020: “Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled for 26 years, claimed he had won a landslide victory in an election marred by accusations of vote-rigging….” […]
Tag: election
Correlations: Left-Handers and Right-Wingers (new study)
“It seems axiomatic to assume that handedness is unrelated to actual placement on the political spectrum. Nevertheless, primed by my longstanding research interest in personality and political preference (e.g., McCann, 1997, 2014a, 2014b), I was struck by the rough similarity of a map of the percentage of left-handers in each state in 1986 (McManus, 2009, […]
Algorithm Predicts Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump to become the 45th President of the United States
by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy July 28, 2016 Now that both major U.S. political parties have announced their nominees for president and vice president and the nominees have accepted these nominations, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm (Debowy and Schulman 2003) can be used to predict the results of the upcoming […]
The statistical un-likelihood of Donald Trump [analysis of a Trump-Up analysis]
Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy write: Contrary to what you might have heard recently (“Get ready for President Trump, says election whiz who’s scary accurate“) from a statistics-driven political scientist, Donald Trump will not “almost certainly become President of the United States” if he wins the Republican nomination. The mainstream media are helping spread that […]
