Genuinely incredible self-own in this Zoe Williams piece, where she mocks D Cummings for suggesting that journalists get off their lazy, complacent backsides & find out about superforecasting, then makes clear she has not even bothered to google the word.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/21/what-i-learned-from-doorstepping-dominic-cummings …
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Niall Gooch 👍 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 🚅 🏏 ✒ @niall_goochWhen I first heard of superforecasting and didn't know what it was, I looked it up and found out what it was. I also asked people who knew about it to explain it to me. This apparently makes me a better journalist than most British political hacks.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
What makes the article even more perfectly idiotic is the bizarre swipe at Sabisky as an "incel" - he's married with a child - & the faux-magisterial dismissal of the science that AS discussed, as if Williams herself was in a position to judge its accuracy. Laughable.
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No scientific findings can possibly undermine my pre-existing ideas about anything, if they do they must be made up by my political enemies. I am very smart.
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Has any left-liberal journalist at all - a single one - actually sat down for a few hours with the evidence on genetics, intelligence, life outcomes and group differences, and then honestly grappled with it in good faith? Because that would be an interesting thing to read.
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Some have, such as
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Calling Dave Rubin a journalist is a bit of a stretch.
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Well @RubinReport is worth a hundred 'mainstream journalists'.
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