Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@SeanTrende It's true that people don't understand the details behind DW-Nominate or why it's an imperfect measure of left-right ideology. But I can think of *much* worse expert or academic work that has been memeified into "science proves the liberals are right!". — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 28, 2022

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@SeanTrende IMO it's a sign of a different problem: confirmation bias. If you look at a bundle of quantitate and qualitative measures of ideology, most of them say the left is moving leftward. DW-N is the exception, and so people use it to argue "science proves polarization asymmetric". — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 28, 2022

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@mattyglesias @SeanTrende I mean some of the solution is just good "traditional" journalism practice, e.g. a) rarely rely on one study, just as you'd rarely rely on one source; b) be alert to the possibility of explicit or implicit bias if the study addresses a hot-button political topic. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 28, 2022