Predictile Dysfunction

Predictile Dysfunction

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Political commentators have repeatedly, reliably, been wrong this election season. There was the improbable Bernie Sanders. The inevitable Jeb Bush. The passing-fad Donald Trump. Now that we’ve landed so far from where we began, we examine why pundits make such bad predictions, and why they probably won’t stop.