Totaram
@BasemanThe validation will come later today or tomorrow. It is you who is confused . The numbers being peddled by the PPP make no sense. Statistics is not used only to predict. .
as a reasoning individual you cannot say the numbers make no sense. That would imply you have "sensible" numbers. Establish that first before you conclude otherwise.
And yes on can use statistics for more than predicting possible outcomes. They are a forensic tool also. We know the results of the other regions and the PPP are up some 51 K. It means from the advantage of the APNU in the last elections in region 4 (40K), the APNU has to perform some 20 percent better to catch up.
They certainly have not done so in any of past elections here or else where. In this election they under performed everywhere else. Of course that does not mean they did over perform here this time. However they are claiming beyond a statistical range to some 25 to 30 percent improve performance. Let the votes be counted properly so we would know