Just fucking stop.
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Just fucking stop. Prediction is not journalism. It does nothing to inform the electorate. It is media self-indulgence. And it's usually wrong.
The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/2028-democrats-presidential-primary.html?smid=tw-share -
Just fucking stop. Prediction is not journalism. It does nothing to inform the electorate. It is media self-indulgence. And it's usually wrong.
The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/2028-democrats-presidential-primary.html?smid=tw-share@jeffjarvis Nate is desperate to be relevant and keep on the oligarch payroll. He's a fluke.
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Just fucking stop. Prediction is not journalism. It does nothing to inform the electorate. It is media self-indulgence. And it's usually wrong.
The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/2028-democrats-presidential-primary.html?smid=tw-share@jeffjarvis The hell of it is that Silver knows that, or at least he used to, but he had a pretty good election forecast model and people kept offering him money to "predict" things and eventually he started taking it.
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@jeffjarvis The hell of it is that Silver knows that, or at least he used to, but he had a pretty good election forecast model and people kept offering him money to "predict" things and eventually he started taking it.
@Thad @jeffjarvis Silver once realized people remembered the times he was right more then the times he was wrong and somehow rode that all the way to the bank. honestly I don't think his model was better than any other model and none of them have been too impressive.
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