# Simulating Primary Elections with Uniform and Normal Voter Distributions

DevFeed: [Simulating Primary Elections with Uniform and Normal Voter Distributions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/lieberman-egg-sausage-and-lieberman-40546.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://norvig.com/chart538.html>)

Published: 2009-02-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Peter Norvig](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/peter-norvig.md>)

Topics: [Simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/simulation.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/simulation.md>)

## AI overview

The article revisits assumptions in Nate Silver's jungle primary simulation. It replicates the original results, then tests normal voter and candidate distributions with different standard deviations, finding that the resulting primary-election patterns change substantially.

## Source excerpt

A reply to Nate Silver's jungle primary post