Sentences with phrase «correct generalisation»
I believe the correct generalisation is «vote which wouldn't change the result if not cast», i.e. the votes for the winner beyond the second candidate's vote plus one are wasted, but like you I can't find a reference.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
The above paragraph contains some sweeping generalisations, but the basic principle is correct.
As an aside, the form of statement used by the IPCC is similar in form to the PAC - bounds (Probably Approximately Correct) studied in machine learning, where it is impossible to produce a useul hard bound on the error rate of a learner over all possible distributions, so instead the aim is to produce a bound of the for «with high probability X the generalisation error of the learner is less than Y», where X and Y are both probabilities.