The US Election

This blog is about beautiful things—like microbiology—and distinctly not about US politics. But, as a statistics junkie, I found this amusing. Nate Silver ran 80,000 simulations, and Harris won 40,012 of them. The outcome of this election isn’t a coin flip, it's closer: From the model’s standpoint, though, the race is literally closer than a coin flip: empirically, heads wins 50.5 percent of the…