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Half of the miscommunications have been caused by misunderstanding how the public would understand certain jargon or other terms of art. The other ½ have been caused by half-baked theories about how the public might react, e.g. concerns about a false sense of security or alarm. — PolitiTweet.org

We keep seeing huge communications snafus and waves of misinformation set off by difficulty conveying the idea of “… https://t.co/dwJCzmHEOx

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@joshtpm @CT_Bergstrom There is also something about the sense of "not wanting to give people a false sense of security" that has led to incredibly awful and confusing coverage on this issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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Boring post. But if you're asking "why did 538's numbers change?", keep in mind that there is a tiny bit of sampling error. We run 40,000 simulations with each model run, which translates to a margin of error of around* 0.5%. * Less than that for probabilities close to 0 or 100 — PolitiTweet.org

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