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>It's impossible for journalists to be unbiased or to be right all the time. Of course, the thing is Silver is 100% wrong in all his predictions regarding Trum

• smt88 10y ago
  You can still read his work for entertainment value or to see the data analysis. That's the value of his work -- it's not just blind punditry. I'm also interested in seeing which serious journalists predicted Trump's success and when they predicted it. The problem, which Silver has written about extensively, is that polls are not always very predictive. In some places and for certain types of elections, they have massive margins of error that make them essentially useless. That's why people looking at real facts and data got this election so wrong: the country changed, and looking at the history of the country didn't tell us what the country is like now. It doesn't mean those people were wrong -- it just shows one of the limitations of science, which is a discipline that, by definition, applies data of the past in an effort to predict the future.
• dinkumthinkum 10y ago
  I think a big problem is that intelligent people tend to be naive about the level of sophistication of voters.
  • eugeneionesco 10y ago
    Those poor and stupid people amirite?