Today
in Human Geography we did election predictions. We had two shadows that were
introduced (I knew neither of them) and then Mr. Schick gave us our class
assignment. Our assignment was to gather information to form an educated guess
on who was going to win the election. Whoever got the exact numbers would win a
prize (Bet you it’s a bumper sticker that is themed with some sort of election
joke). We had to get four answers, who we thought was going to win, the
electoral votes for each candidate, and the popular vote percentages. I was
originally just going to use whatever an octopus thought as my answer,
considering there’s one that predicts the Super Bowl winner, and the president
accurately (Hey, octopuses are really smart). Unfortunately I couldn’t even use
it as a tiebreaker because the only octopus predicting an election predicted
Raila would get presidency in some overseas country. Instead, I used my second
best formula. I took all the numbers from the polls for each candidate and
averaged them out to figure out the best number for each statistic.
Unfortunately, my computer was having trouble loading and maintain the pages,
so I only got through the electoral votes and didn’t get to the popular vote
section. Secondly, Hillary Clinton won on every poll, so I had to write Hillary
on the board to win the election (Curse you electoral college voting system!).
A) You didn't HAVE to guess what the polls told you, right?
ReplyDeleteB) Are you still cursing the electoral college system?
C) I hope the actual prize was better than what you anticipated.
D) I never found out who the octopus chose. Who was it?
A) Technically it is still a guess even with information as the final output was (and is) an indefinite
ReplyDeleteB) I still think the electoral college is stupid (popular vote should be used)
C) Ha. Ha Ha. (I though it was going to be a bumper sticker)
D)I couldn't find an octopus predicting our election, but apparently Raila will win the election in Kenya.