Comments on: Going for Gold http://olympics.tyglobalist.org/2008/08/25/going-for-gold/ Paull Randt blogs from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Daniel Johnson http://olympics.tyglobalist.org/2008/08/25/going-for-gold/#comment-34 Daniel Johnson Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:42:51 +0000 http://olympics.tyglobalist.org/?p=112#comment-34 Thanks so much for mentioning our work in this context. Ayfer Ali and I actually developed the original Johnson-Ali model in 2000, but it seemed interesting to apply it again this year. It held up again, with a 0.93 correlation between predictions and actual medal counts. And you didn't even mention that I earned my PhD from Yale's very own Economics Department! Thanks so much for mentioning our work in this context. Ayfer Ali and I actually developed the original Johnson-Ali model in 2000, but it seemed interesting to apply it again this year. It held up again, with a 0.93 correlation between predictions and actual medal counts.

And you didn’t even mention that I earned my PhD from Yale’s very own Economics Department!

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