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Old 11-02-2016, 02:32 PM   #5097
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post

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.
This statement here seems to be clear criticism of 538 and its methodology. If you didn't call them meritocratic spinsters maybe you could spin this statement into your above one.
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