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I believe you're holding Nate Silver up to an unrealistic standard. This is obviously not a complete refutation of all of the stolen data, nor does it claim to
by bendotc 17y ago
I believe you're holding Nate Silver up to an unrealistic standard. This is obviously not a complete refutation of all of the stolen data, nor does it claim to be. He is instead taking an instance of what people are complaining about -- a pretty standard example of the things that get pasted about this story, from what I've seen -- and pointing out that people are blowing this particular one out of proportion.
Maybe you're complaining that no one is really complaining about this specific email, but to me, this one looks a lot like the others contained in the stolen data that I've seen. From my perspective, it seems a lot of people are reading what they want into the emails, though I'll readily admit I haven't spent my day pouring through it, nor do I really intend to.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoIf nothing else, this will make people think twice -- if even the moral crusader Nate Silver admits that it's common to fudge data to make things look more compelling, they'll think about that next time someone tells them what the temperature change over the next thirty years will be.
- lutorm 17y agoTrue. Whichever way that temperature appears to be changing.
- willwagner 17y agoDid you read the title of his post? "I Read Through 160,000,000 Bytes of Hacked Files And All I Got Was This Lousy E-Mail" It seems to imply to me to be a complete refutation of all the stolen data. I'm usually a fan of 538 and feel pretty level headed in my opinions on global warming, but Nate could have definitely done better.