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Tue May 05 22:09:32 +0000 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I've seen many times in election coverage when the media narrative gets overextended based on dubious analysis of noisy data and then abruptly has to reverse itself and winds up overcompensating in the other direction. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Meanwhile, the media is touting what are supposedly extremely dire projections by the White House (200K cases/day) but which actually have an extremely unclear provenance, and which could be used to make merely-awful numbers look good by comparison. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I dunno, this feels like an excuse for the media to not even bother to aim for rigorousness when evaluating coronavirus numbers. And there are some fairly basic mistakes being made. — PolitiTweet.org

Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo

what’s gonna happen is no matter the deaths, high or low, any numbers will confirm all priors, all contra media wil… https://t.co/aLvg5QepdY

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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