Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoFun fact: 10% of Americans will vote for a guy that had his brain eaten by a worm. Just look at five thirty eight
Well there is the convicted felon, rapist and wannabe dictatorial psychopath, there is the guy with the dead brainworms in his head, and there is the guy who you can vote for if you would like things to continue as they are.
Oh, you can also choose between reluctant and enthusiastic support of genocide, and breaking up strikes versus shooting at protestors.
His brain wasn’t eaten by a tape worm because it was most likely cysticercosis caused by the young form of the parasite that usually calcifies. The adult worms grow in the intestine, don’t have teeth, and absorb nutrients passively.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Everyone that made 538 worth reading was laid off. Even Nate Silver is gone, and he took his model with him. We’ll see how they do this election, but I’m not paying attention to them this election.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Is that true that they do not continue to use Nate Silver’s mathematical model?
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nate owns the model, not 538. I hope they’re not using it.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Votemaster and Zenger at electoralvote.com have a decent site. They take a ‘model of models’ approach and while their editorials are decidedly liberal, they put math and statistical analysis at the forefront and show their work.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And even before that they were tragically wrong in 2016. Fuck polls.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
They weren’t incorrect, they predicted Trump had a chance to win and he made that chance happen
What they did that was stupid was oversell what an odds advantage meant for Clinton and when caught in their own mistelling of how their own reports work proceeded to make themselves look like that nerd who can’t admit that he fucked up and blames it all on other people not understanding what he was “akshualay” saying.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No they weren’t. They gave trump a 33% chance of winning and successfully called out how he could win.