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We've now had three weeks to scour all of the bits of evidence that are available and this is the best conclusion that we can come up with. now until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft, and then do the regression analysis that might do the regressive analysis that might tell us where it went into the ocean, we'll be operating on guesstimates. nevertheless, this is the best we can do. and i want to stress we've got the best people in the world doing this work. we have got extraordinary minds, extraordinary technology involved in trying to come one the best answers we can. >> how d...

Decreasing. until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft, and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean, we'll be operating on guesstima guesstimates. but nevertheless, this is the best we can do. >> relying on guesstimates, that is the best that search teams can do right now, 24 days after malaysia flight 370 went down in the indian ocean. the search area is now the size of new mexico. it's moved and it's grown since last week. but if this is where the plane sunk, the good news is that the seabed here is more conducive for an junked wa...

And nothing to offer but condolences. >> the questions that the families want answered is the question we do not have the answer to mainly where loved ones are. >> reporter: hopes are dashed almost daily, always the same story, object spotted from the air and space, when they are found, are not part of the missing plane. >> this is the best conclusion that we can come up with. now, until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean we'll be operating on guesstimates. >> reporter: and the guesses h...

Election modeling, regression analysis and other techniques including old-fashioned checking with good sources who have access to the private polls. jon: if we take a look at the map on what your projection was and then compare it with the map as things actually stand after the election, here are your predictions. then if we wipe to the map that shows how things actually turned out, people get a pretty good idea of how accurate, how accurate you were. what about the hurricane, the superstorm sandy? did it affect votes? did it cause you any last minute consternation or wrinkles in your projecti...

Convince women they don't live in the real world? probably not. because almost every survey that's ever been done of working women, when you asked them about their job, like 95% say my biggest problem on the job is lack of equal pay. >> in terms of making it very clear, what you were talking about there about doing a statistical regression analysis on these things. controlling for other factors. i spent a long time going through the republican side of this argument today just trying to understand how you could look at these very blunt numbers and come up with the opposite truth. what you're sa...