Good article in German about Cambridge Analytics and their impact on recent elections: https://www.dasmagazin.ch/2016/12/03/ich-habe-nur-gezeigt-dass-es-die-bombe-gibt/ …
People already statistically illiterate even about, say, margin of error, let alone modeling.
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NYT—for example—put "CLINTON WILL WIN" model percentage (wrong!) on. every. election. article.
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Also, given NYT's line of articles on "cyber" (clueless arrogance), I distrusted them elsewhere--
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Well, I did ML statistical learning, so I took 538 stats as I believe they meant them, "very close".
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Models weren't wrong per se—but basic stuff like "errors are correlated" weren't communicated.
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