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Talk:United States presidential election, 2012 (view source)
Revision as of 06:06, February 10, 2012
, 06:06, February 10, 2012→Predictions
:::::The [[Conservapedia proven right]] takes credit for predicting Newt's surprisingly strong showing -- which included winning the [[South Carolina]] primary by a landslide. Obviously the [[Conservapedia proven right]] does not claim that a nominee has been selected yet. Predictions can be partially correct.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:34, 10 February 2012 (EST)
:::::The [[Conservapedia proven right]] takes credit for predicting Newt's surprisingly strong showing -- which included winning the [[South Carolina]] primary by a landslide. Obviously the [[Conservapedia proven right]] does not claim that a nominee has been selected yet. Predictions can be partially correct.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:34, 10 February 2012 (EST)
::::::"''Predictions can be partially correct.''" That is true in cases where a prediction has multiple conditions to satisfy. For example picking the winner of a horse race, ''and'' the exact time it will take the horse to cross the finish line. You may pick the right horse, but your estimated elapsed time was off. That would be a partially correct prediction. Yet what you're essentially doing on the [[Conservapedia proven right]] page is as soon as your horse takes the lead, you declare victory. So even if that horse stumbles before the finish line,and ends up coming in last, would you then go onto declare partial victory? "''Well I was correct for the first 95% of the race...''" That's sort of like jumping off the Empire State building and saying "so far so good" after the first 10 floors. --[[User:JoshuaB|JoshuaB]] 01:06, 10 February 2012 (EST)