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Seemingly Unbiased prediction

hawkeyescott said:
Some well thought out analysis? All they did was recap last weeks games for both teams.
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I guess you're right. If it was a little bit more in depth, they would have said a few more things like "but it was only NDSU" or "the Hawks beat a UNI offense that is clearly better than ISU"... :no:
 
hawkeyescott said:
Some well thought out analysis? All they did was recap last weeks games for both teams.
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Yeah. How else would you make a prediction for the coming week? Just another butt-hurt hok fan because his team wasn't picked to win by 50 over lowly Iowa State.
 
So its unbiased because they picked ISU? I'm guessing it would be biased according to you if they picked Iowa.
 
LeSchmick said:
So its unbiased because they picked ISU? I'm guessing it would be biased according to you if they picked Iowa.
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:biglaugh:

Hate to say it, but I agree with you LeSchmick. The OP should probably have titled the thread "K.C. Star's ISU-Iowa prediction" or something like that.
 
LeSchmick said:
So its unbiased because they picked ISU? I'm guessing it would be biased according to you if they picked Iowa.
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Not at all. If it was truly biased, why pick the final score so close? I thought it was a decent review. Realistic people will pick a close score with either team as the victor. There are just too many unknowns on both sides.
 
Cyrocks said:
:biglaugh:

Hate to say it, but I agree with you LeSchmick. The OP should probably have titled the thread "K.C. Star's ISU-Iowa prediction" or something like that.
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Unbiased meaning it didn't come from a blatantly obvious homer from either side. (as have many of the other published predictions posted here.)
 
It was unbiased because the prediction wasn't based on the writers personal opinion of either team. The writer based the prediction on how the teams played in their first games. If he had looked at the first games and thought that Iowa had played better than Iowa State, he probably would have picked Iowa. That is not how the first games went down. That is why it is unbiased.
 
Stumpy said:
I'm not sure I can take a write-up seriously when the author misspells the fourth word of the story...
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Saw that too. Editor must be an easier job to get these days. A ton of major papers around these parts fail every day in this.
 
Stewo said:
Yeah. How else would you make a prediction for the coming week? Just another butt-hurt hok fan because his team wasn't picked to win by 50 over lowly Iowa State.
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I wouldn't care if they picked ISU by 100, I could have wrote that article and came up with a prediction and I have no background what-so-ever in journalism.

You make a prediction by comparing units against units and what you think might happen, not recap the previous weeks games. What Iowa did against UNI and what ISU did against NDSU has no bearing on the outcome Saturday. Iowa is going to see a better offense and ISU is going to see a better defense then their first two opponents so numbers from last week mean nothing.

Now if Iowa was playing UNI again and ISU was playing NDSU again then it was an excellent analysis.
 
Iowa is going to see a better offense and ISU is going to see a better defense then their first two opponents so numbers from last week mean nothing.
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Word.
 
AmesCloneFan said:
Unbiased meaning it didn't come from a blatantly obvious homer from either side. (as have many of the other published predictions posted here.)
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cyhiphopp said:
It was unbiased because the prediction wasn't based on the writers personal opinion of either team. The writer based the prediction on how the teams played in their first games. If he had looked at the first games and thought that Iowa had played better than Iowa State, he probably would have picked Iowa. That is not how the first games went down. That is why it is unbiased.
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I get all that. I really do. But I also get the point that had the writer stated everything the same, but picked Iowa, would that have made it a "biased" article? LeSchmeck brings up a good point, as much as I hate to say it.

As for the mistakes in the story, a lot of times what is posted is usually a rough copy before many of the editors get it.
 
Cyrocks said:
I get all that. I really do. But I also get the point that had the writer stated everything the same, but picked Iowa, would that have made it a "biased" article? LeSchmeck brings up a good point, as much as I hate to say it.

As for the mistakes in the story, a lot of times what is posted is usually a rough copy before many of the editors get it.
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Yeah I'm guessing if they picked the hawks, you wouldn't see the same thread title.
 
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