> What on earth is a professional like Silver doing using the word "extremely" in that context? Extemporizing while being interviewed on TV, presumably to stre

> What on earth is a professional like Silver doing using the word "extremely" in that context? Extemporizing while being interviewed on TV, presumably to stress the uncertainty in the prediction, is what he is doing, not writing an HN post, tweet or paper. I suppose that whenever you are interviewed on national TV, you only say exactly what you mean, nothing more and nothing less?