• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      For a long time I thought nearly all of this sort of stuff was him trolling.

      I think I was partially right. For example when it comes to politics - it's hard (if not impossible) to know when he's being smarmy and when he's being a total dipshit. But this tweet is different. As you pointed out - it doesn't exactly build his brain as a statistican and really, really smart guy. This comment is bluecheck-level of idoicy. He does actually seem to be YOLO levels of stupid in many areas.

      I meant to write "build his brand" but I left in the typo. It's funny.

    • anotherone [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      His degree is in economics anyway, which is kiiinda close enough to statistics? But I'm sure everyone will understand what I'm getting at here.

      I knew him as a poker player (who called himself Nate "tha" Great) way before he was a household name so him being a smarmy douchebag was really no great shock.

        • anotherone [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          It's funny because I thought about this an hour ago and the way I would put it is "mainstream economics manipulates statistics to fit a preconceived worldview and theory." Which a lot of "statistics" related study is guilty of these days. But yeah, I think that's my problem with calling Nate Silver a statistician. He's a statistician who works backwards from a narrative.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      He punked us. He was talking about the Titanic itself. "Titanic cruise" was misdirection so people might think he was talking about the sub and he could say "Of course I mean the ship itself." I should have known.

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      moat Americans are excited by treats and shiny toys. They like projecting that other everyone else

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      He was never a good statistician and the Obama prediction was entirely a fluke and he rode that for ten years and never predicted anything else very well