wedrifid comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 January 2012 04:02:37AM 1 point [-]

The U.S. Presidential candidate who spends the most money on his campaign will be elected.

Why is this downvoted? Too obvious?

Comment author: gwern 01 January 2012 04:17:39AM 11 points [-]

Hard to judge, thanks to the Citizens case, and I can't help but wonder if it's near tautology - the more popular candidate wins, and also raises the most.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 January 2012 10:27:49AM *  3 points [-]

It's not a tautology because they are not logically equivalent (heh), but a spurious correlation, yes.