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That makes sense. It would be very useful to see estimates of how well Presidential candidates would do if they got elected.

In the future, one idea would be to keep track of people's metric estimates in Guesstimate, and later score and rank them on how well they do. So if Charles always reports a 90% confidence interval that's far too optimistic, we could help adjust it automatically next time. This would also allow us to aggregate different opinions directly, essentially being like a mini prediction challenge. This would be a ways off though, and it really depends on what direction the product goes.



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