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You could model behavior of millions of people statistically - the same way we model anything with millions of data points.


Sure, you can look at history, see patterns there, and apply them to whatever's happening in the world right now.

Or, you could make reasonably accurate predictions on what's going to happen, based on your knowledge of how human's behave.

But what you can't do, is put current data through a bunch of mathematical functions, and have them tell you what people will do.




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