Holy moly 170 comments on the article itself and nothing but downvotes over here. Man I wonder what the conversation that didn't happen was that caused this.
I am just as confused. Most of my /politics posts and comments are relatively well upvoted, but I guess there’s a sizable contingent who just hate any mention of polls at all or have it out for Nate Silver. I was at least expecting a few more comments about how Silver ranked some pollsters and whether folks thought those assessments were accurate. 🤷🏼♂️
Well you are still getting downvoted so.... Did you piss someone off?
In general I don’t think so, and there’s only about one to three accounts that downvote most things I post/comment so I don’t think it’s that. I think I’m leaning towards reactionary downvotes for anything that mentions “polls” - which is a shame, as while I don’t think polls are terribly good at being reliably predictive of the results, I think they’re fairly good when used for tracking changes in momentum and at least more reliable when analyzed in aggregate with competent and rigorous weighting based on past performance. And this article is great about explaining how that’s done by the only folks who’ve been shown to be any good at it.
Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes?
Maybe because the article is behind a paywall?
I was wondering that too. Do we hate Nate silver now? Dude always seemed pretty respected
I was actually excited to share as I hadn’t seen this explained as well before. Live and learn I guess.
I mean, you can just close the pop up and still read the full article? Or do you see something different?
Hmm... I could have sworn that the first time I followed the link it went to this page which ends after a few paragraphs with a subscription link. But the page I get now is fine.
(Edit: I see now that I got to that page from a link in your comments, and mistook that tab for the one I’d opened from the main link.)
That was the link I gave in the comments about their current analysis based on aggregated polling. If you’re only getting a few paragraphs, I’m guessing you’re using reader view? (I default to it too) Unfortunately a bunch of news-type websites now essentially break reader view and only show a snippet. If you view outside reader, you should be able to see the polling analysis.
BTW, if you haven’t seen it already, this is Nate’s forecast page with a national aggregate, aggregates for swing states (or what were thought to be potential swing states earlier in the year), and the latest polls that have been brought into the model. https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
It shouldn’t be so close but I’ll take it
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