• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    I remember listening to a podcast they would make, a lady and a guy and Nate Silver. I think it’s that podcast that makes me not really like him or his ideas aside from the numbers and the team he surrounds himself with. I look at 538 and I trust it for the most part but if it has Silver attached to it, I think of it as editorial

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      3 months ago

      538 no longer has Nate Silver or his model; Disney bought it and fired him like a year ago or so.

      Still, I agree; I don’t like his politics, but his analysis of polls and numbers is probably the best out there.

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      3 months ago

      He seems to have gotten more right-wing in recent years, although he doesn’t talk about it too explicitly (maybe he was always like that and I just didn’t know).

      I remember him downplaying the J6 insurrection during one of the podcasts which was the point where I lost a lot of respect for him, and frankly him leaving isn’t a big loss as he seemed to be just over election modelling in general by the end.