• 4am@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Nate “oh they don’t know why they’re Protesting, it’s just trendy” Silver? The guy who hasn’t been right about the last like 2-3 elections? That Nate Silver?

    Forgive me if he doesn’t fool me into loaning him some VC money. The fucking Theranos of statistics.

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      5 months ago

      At best he misinterprets his data, and at worst he deliberately misinterprets them to fit an agenda. Many of his takes are subjective and meaningless. “My data show that Biden’s chance of winning Wisconsin is… ‘medium’ to ‘pretty good.’”