Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

People think the takeaway message of 538 is "polls are awesome and we can solve everything with numbers!!!" when really it's "human judgment is full of shit so you might as well go with the polls because every other way of forecasting elections sucks even worse". — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2019 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

There's also a version of this that applies to the 2016 *general* election. Polls showed Clinton ahead, but in a close/uncertain race (i.e. Trump had a ~30% chance). The conventional wisdom thought Trump's chances were way lower and was wronger than polls. https://t.co/gDBFn2T51E — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin @HotlineJosh @tripgabriel Benjy, please don't say that. It's way more fun to focus on the outliers so you can write more Takes. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2019 Hibernated