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> but you'd think that this would be an obvious one for them to break since it is ostensibly their specialty. Silver's already touched on this poll and its unu

• firebones 10y ago
  Good point. Although I think Cohn's speciality is more valuable to me here. I came away from the Silver piece when I first read it with the problem merely being a fixed population of voters; the Cohn piece was much more illuminating since it showed the specifics of how that pre-condition has been affecting all kinds of aggregation methods. So Silver was the early warning, but Cohn had the nitty-gritty. I'm just used to Silver providing that--they seem spread pretty thin. As you point out, you have to specialize in something, though...
• ianai 10y ago
  And so what if he were to be scooped? No ones all knowing.