re: #326 goddamnedfrank

Take a look at the involved, graduate level advanced statistical analysis being done by Nate Silver or Sam Wang, and compare it to the sixth grade homework assignment over at RCP.

The isn’t a story about wishful thinking or confirmation bias, it’s a story about adults who do this kind of shit for a living vs. dull little children who’ve discovered the =average(range) function in Excel and have learned to game the inputs.

YES. THIS.

What Nate Silver and Sam Wang do for a living with numbers would make the average college student shit themselves in fear, even the math and accounting majors. They’re not playing at being stats geniuses. They know what they’re talking about.

RCP is a joke in comparison. It’s like comparing an NFL team to a Pop Warner team.