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The dangers of data: why the numbers never tell the full story

Future US president Donald Trump addresses an election night rally in November 2016

Confirmation bias … the available data only gave Donald Trump a 15% chance of winning the presidential election.

Kian Bakhtiari
Strategist, FortySix
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