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Nate “oh they don’t know why they’re Protesting, it’s just trendy” Silver? The guy who hasn’t been right about the last like 2-3 elections? That Nate Silver?
Forgive me if he doesn’t fool me into loaning him some VC money. The fucking Theranos of statistics.
At best he misinterprets his data, and at worst he deliberately misinterprets them to fit an agenda. Many of his takes are subjective and meaningless. "My data show that Biden's chance of winning Wisconsin is... 'medium' to 'pretty good.'"
Isn't that something he normally admits to (or at least he did back when he was with 538). That the value of the "Horse race" election reporting was essentially nil as long as the percentage of undecided voters was greater than the margin (+error) between the candidates.
Is there an easy way to block one publication from appearing in my feed, this guy isn't worth listening to any more
Not that I know of but tbh, you should look at blocking the entity that brought this into lemmy/your life.
You can block the user if he enters articles or info you want to dismiss. For me it's entirely a valid thing to do as gaining control over who gets to enter your information space is your prerogative.
I don't think that feature exists yet.
But more inquisitively why do you dislike Silver? He's generally been the "gold standard" when it comes to data driven political analysis.
Why not? I thought fivethirtyeight helped me get a handle on the political odds in 2020 and 2022.
Oh ok, thanks Nate Silver