Reading Shadows on Plato’s Cave Wall
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needs to explain how third-party elections produce strongly reversed effects of stochastic learning. Also, he could validate his model for two party elections if he used data—from other two-party election years or countries—that were not used to build his original model. However, given the apparently small effects of stochastic learning and various problems with data quality, this could be a difficult task.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003