Nate Silver

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@HeerJeet I think foreign policy (with some exceptions such as Israel) and fiscal policy i) require fairly esoteric knowledge and ii) have largely been untouched by the culture wars, so some of the older norms prevail. But I think these are becoming more the exception than the rule. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

It's true that statistical significance and practical significance are not the same thing. But people are generally very happy to twist themselves around and apply any permutation of that distinction so long as they can reinforce their priors. — PolitiTweet.org