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Written by Andreas Graefe
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:55 |
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Andreas Graefe and Scott Armstrong developed a model for forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections. It provides fast advice on which issues candidates should focus on in their campaign by using information about how voters perceive the candidates’ ability to handle the single most important issue facing the country. It predicted the winner of the past ten elections with an accuracy of 97% (based on an examination of the forecasts on each of the last 100 days prior to each of the last ten U.S. Presidential elections). A working paper version of the paper, which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, is available here.
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