Hey N.H. GOP, care to make a wager with Prof. Wang?
Data scientist Sam Wang, founder of the Princeton Election Consortium, has developed statistical methods to analyze U.S. presidential election polls with unusually high accuracy.
The associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton was not swayed by last week’s WMUR Granite State Poll, which declared Scott Brown and Jeanne Shaheen are in a “dead heat” for the U.S. Senate seat:
People. Please. If Jeanne Shaheen (D) loses to Scott Brown ® in NH-Sen, I promise to eat a bug.
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD)
Update: Prof. Wang responds:
@miscellanyblue @NHGOP I’ll gladly give them even odds: a bug for a bug. They can even choose the bug that *someone* will eat.
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) August 27, 2014