Thursday, March 16, 2023

I'm Not Quite Sure What Nate Silver's Defending Here

But it sure sounds like he's defending this: "A silly and highly self-referential and self-glorifying obsession dressed up to look like a serious thing." Besides, "instinct" in Silver's tweet is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Way more than the context and "analysis" will bear. There's that, too.

2 comments:

  1. It's shibboleth all the way down.

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  2. Whenever there's a problem some people try to find a solution and some people just look for somebody to blame. Scapegoating is almost always the easiest and most popular approach.

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