I didn't see this article until Adam tweeted it. This part matters: > You probably didn’t want to have a difficult conversation with your aunt whom you knew was voting for Trump. You probably didn’t want to think too much about the fact that the United States (cont) https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1050512301697175552 …
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> is a country deeply divided along racial and economic lines. Instead, you’d rather hit refresh on a little web page that tells you how America will vote. Too bad the numbers were wrong. It's not just that polls rely on a lot of bad assumptions.
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Real-time, chronically salient polls break the process of politics. Citing Goodhart's Law doesn't do it justice. Always accessible, frequently updating polling with faux-precision moves politics from "all politics is local" to "all politics is abstraction parallel to reality."
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idk it. what should I read?
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Thanks! (Although at this stage in my dissertation, summaries like that terrify me — too close for comfort for something I don’t know...)
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