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Battle of the Conspiracy Theorists: Chuck C. Johnson vs. Roger Stone

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Nerdy Fish10/31/2016 7:42:08 pm PDT

re: #378 Ziggy_TARDIS

Got a 2nd Poll showing a Hillary lead in Alaska.

I know we caution you about this often, but don’t just cherry-pick your polls. For all your pooh-poohing of Nate Silver’s work, legitimate though your criticisms may be, it’s safer to play against the aggregate because it increases the sample size. In a situation like an election, where the data noise is high, the larger sample size by including even skewed polls makes it more likely that the aggregate will report something resembling the truth.