you may be interested in @zeynep here https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/opinion/election-forecasts-modeling-flaws.html … for more depth on a similar opinion as @JakeAnbinder.
It's not about resisting quantitative description, but being better at it: communicating differences that are meaningful to readers
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Yep. This is what I first thought (hoped for) when models came on the scene, but that’s not what happened at all. https://twitter.com/johnmyleswhite/status/1323255181836980225 …
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Here is why I changed my mind.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1322982447844364292 …
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As addendum, for @insight, I wrote about why I changed my mind on this, and why I was wrong in 2012 when I defended modeling when Nate Silver was being trashed by pundits. The pundits were wrong for sure. But things did not turn out the way I had hoped. https://zeynep.substack.com/p/stop-refreshing-that-forecast …
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