Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Here's the survey The Guardian cited. Basically a firearms association saying "yeah, gun sales are up!" from retailers who self-selected to respond to them. Gotta have a better BS detector than to frame a whole narrative around this. https://t.co/ftADBAaZSF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 30, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Seeing this claim that gun ownership among Black Americans is up 58%, but it was based on a survey of firearms retailers who were asked to subjectively estimate how much sales increased among different demographic groups by a firearms trade association. Not scientific @guardian. https://t.co/7FuHaXBRLh — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 30, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This guy is a constant source of bad information. It went from 2.6% of sequences sampled to 3.4% which is well within the margin of sampling error. Also the overall number of cases is plummeting in NYC so the absolute number of P1 cases is likely steady or declining. — PolitiTweet.org

Ummmm… #P1 🇧🇷 variant’s case fraction % in New York City just rose over 30% in just one week. Any others growing? N… https://t.co/PK095KZsQF

Posted April 30, 2021