Article from a few weeks ago, but now that G. Elliott Morris is taking over without Nate’s models, I’m curious what lemmy’s think about political polling analysis from FiveThirtyEight?

  • The_Pete@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I remember him having some weird COVID takes. Statistically we should just get out there because only a few of us would die. He seemed to think it was odd that people were staying in for no reason. That completely missed the point that if your family is the statistic, it just fucks your whole life up.

    Heh, I remember thinking, statistically, he’s probably not wrong for a population but that completely missed the prisoner’s dilemma of making sure you’re not the statistic.