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It's just the biggest story, not the most recent. The most recent would be everyone getting the polls wrong by assuming Obama turnouts and ignoring the enthusi
by Natsu 10y ago
It's just the biggest story, not the most recent.
The most recent would be everyone getting the polls wrong by assuming Obama turnouts and ignoring the enthusiasm gap at the rallies. To his credit, Nate Silver realized we were just 'one normal polling error away from electing Trump' only to get attacked for not showing 98-99% odds of Clinton as you can read here:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/nate-silver-huffington-post-polls-twitter-230815 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/nate-silver-huffington...
There's a reasonable range of disagreement. But a model showing Clinton at 98% or 99% is not defensible based on the empirical evidence.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 5, 2016
- untog 10y agoBut again, it's not as if this isn't being called out. Including, as you're saying, by the media itself. And these aren't cases of deliberate deception - they're faulty reporting. Surely that is inevitable every now and then. The posts seem on the Facebook pages many people forward are knowingly incorrect. And they're not getting called out. It's a whole new ball game.
- Natsu 10y agoIt's politics. How can you assume that they know they're incorrect? And sure, it's being called out now, but that's only because of the election results. Anything you do to suppress information will trigger the Streisand Effect. Any censorship of it will be routed around because this is the internet. The cure for bad speech has always been more speech.