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The cartoon fox is really infantilizing. I know probability is tricky and sometimes counterintuitive, and I appreciate being taught things, but don't treat me
by heleninboodler 6y ago
The cartoon fox is really infantilizing. I know probability is tricky and sometimes counterintuitive, and I appreciate being taught things, but don't treat me like I'm in kindergarten.
- wilg 6y agoI think this says a lot more about you than it does about the cartoon fox!
- currymj 6y agoi have to imagine it would piss Nate Silver off to experience 4 years of continual mockery for "getting the election completely wrong" when he in fact got it right. anyway, I agree the cartoon fox seemed very condescending and I wonder whether there wasn't some real frustration with the public behind it.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The cartoon fox is really infantilizing. I know probability is tricky and sometimes counterintuitive, and I appreciate being taught things, but don't treat me like I'm in kindergarten. Have you considered that you are quite possibly both more educated and more intelligent than the people whose experience the cartoon fox is designed to improve. Sure, I don't need it, but I haven't even noticed it since the first time I went to the forecast page this cycle.