[peter12]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Interesting chat with the 538 staff on whether or not the Dems should be panicking.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...mocrats-panic/

Taleb Nicholas Nassim has been a constant critic of 538's misuse of statistics for the sake of popular appeal throughout this entire cycle.

It is political rhetoric with the veneer of mathematical certainty.

As someone with a very basic understanding of statistics, I tend to ignore everything about Nate Silver, and his little band of meritocratic spinsters.

Of course if you took away fivethirtyeight, most posters in this thread would have very little to read.