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I kinda get your point - statistics suck the air out of the room. If regular people are talking about swing state poll margins of error instead of the actual is
by sdwr 2y ago
I kinda get your point - statistics suck the air out of the room. If regular people are talking about swing state poll margins of error instead of the actual issues, something's gone wrong.
538 democrasized the numbers that were the domain of political whizzes. I don't know if that's a good thing.
- wslack 2y agoI think aggregators are useful to tell us what actually moved voters in a campaign - the swings are visible even if baseline error is not.
- bee_rider 2y agoEh, this seems to just promote armchair quarterbacking. What moved voters is an issue for the campaigns to track. We should listen to what the campaigns say about what we care about.
- maigret 2y agoWell swing states are the issues, aren’t they? I’m happy to live in a place where it isn’t a small fraction of individuals deciding the fate of the country.