Politics@beehaw.org • 1 year ago

Do you trust FiveThirtyEight without Nate Silver?

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Do you trust FiveThirtyEight without Nate Silver?

Politics@beehaw.org • 1 year ago

A Brutal Wonk Swap at FiveThirtyEight

After Disney refused to re-up Nate Silver’s contract at the influential polling blog FiveThirtyEight, it hired his quasi rival, G. Elliott Morris.

Article from a few weeks ago, but now that G. Elliott Morris is taking over without Nate’s models, I’m curious what lemmy’s think about political polling analysis from FiveThirtyEight?

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What is he, a religious leader now?

He was a good modeler and handicapper. His model happened to work well for the 2016 election. That’s it. He’s not a fucking oracle.

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