Intuition versus Algorithm: The Case of Forensic Authorship Attribution
Lawrence M. Solan · bepress Legal Repository · 2013
On November 6, 2012, Barack Obama was reelected President of the United States, having defeated his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney.The vote in the Electoral College-the official body that votes on a state-by-state basis-was decisive: 332-206.' Obama also won the national popular vote by a margin of about 4,850,000 votes (50.9% to 47.1%).2But Obama's winning by a comfortable margin is not what many of the pundits on television were predicting.Some announced that Romney would win the election, including predictions that he