Pundits Only Accurate As A Coin Toss

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Hamilton College studied the accuracy of 26 political pundits and 472 of their predictions and came up with the following curiousities:

• Only 9 prognosticators could predict more accurately than a coin flip.
• 2 were extremely less accurate
• 14 were no better or worse than a coin flip.
• Paul Krugman was the most accurate
• Cal Thomas was least accurate (Fox News analyst, of course)