halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Nearly half of Americans don’t know what they’re celebrating on July 4, poll findsEnglish
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8 days agoI guess it depends on how you define “kinda close” since the Constitution didn’t start getting drafted until a decade later
I think the supposed logic is that if you average everyone’s predictions together you’ll be pretty close to accurate. Similar to how a crowd of people sing with near perfect pitch even though any individual in that crowd isn’t. However, this runs head first into Goodhart’s Law and immediately falls apart