professional observation that silvers mostly done good work, he had a better model in 2016 than anyone else and it put out a reasonable prediction, and guys like this are clowning themselveshttps://twitter.com/RadishHarmers/status/1188893775034236929 …
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Silver's objective, polls-based Monte Carlo simulations of general elections were and remain the gold standard. Everything else he does that is politics related- his idiotic fixation on "party decides/endorsement primary", his pontificating and punditry, his podcasts- are trash.
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To torture an analogy slightly, he's like a market commentator who, upon realizing that the data that matters only needs updating once per quarter, spends 90% of his time tweeting about the Chilean PMIs and 1% moves in the Dow Transports instead of just doing nothing.
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that seems p plausible I guess I missed this by never reading his columns or hearing him speak
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