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Fiendish Thingy

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1. Nate Silver is a corrupt failure

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:38 PM

Aug 3

In one of my particular subfields, election forecasting, there’s been a lot of bad work, which probably did more to misinform the conversation than contribute to it.

Silver made significant contributions to the misinformation he references, by choosing, as then-head of 538, to include clearly flawed and biased polls favouring republicans that deliberately manipulated 538’s aggregate averages and forecasting model. Silver admitted it when confronted, shrugged and said “Dems could have done their own shitty polls, but didn’t”

His opinions should be ignored.

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