He added that AS-levels alone correctly predicted the outcome slightly less frequently in 68.4% of cases.

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Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium correctly predicted the outcome in 49 states.

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Ironically, Bill Gates himself predicted this outcome in 1991, back when the courts had only begun to legalize software patents.

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While the various pundits bloviated and predicted, Silver and a number of others crunched the data and once again predicted the outcome with amazing accuracy.

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Dr Hill had predicted this outcome, thanks to error-management theory the idea that when people (or, indeed, other animals) make errors of judgment, they tend to make the error that is least costly.

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Seward had predicted such an outcome four years earlier, and he helped lead the opposition to the bill in the Senate.

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This was an outcome predicted by Tomas Kellner, who wrote the first serious investigative article on Intellectual Ventures in Forbes Magazine in 2005, but resisted by Myhrvold for years.

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The eventual short-term outcome cannot be predicted by looking at fundamental data or charts.

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