Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

IMO one of the biggest advantages of models is looking at the broader history of elections and not just the most recent or salient examples. There were decent precedents for how Biden won the D nomination (say, Clinton '92) for instance, but they weren't especially recent. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Yeah, the Clinton stuff is sort of like superstition masquerading as empiricism. There is, obviously, nothing wrong with looking at past races to figure out how much polls might change. That's exactly what models do! But at least they're using 12-15 elections and not just 1. — PolitiTweet.org

I understand why people would compare Biden's current polling to Clinton's final polling, but I'll never really get… https://t.co/Omi0wpq4jD

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So when I see data-oriented folks get overly obsessed with what this or that indicator would have said in 2016 or otherwise fighting the last year, I think they're starting to commit some of the same sins as conventional punditry with its strong recency bias. — PolitiTweet.org

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