From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Boron Elgar wrote on 8/31/2021 :   
   > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:11:53 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Boron Elgar  wrote   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:29:47 -0700 (PDT), Richard Hershberger   
   >>>> It is amazing how irrelevant he became when he moved to the current   
   >>>> format.  What he did well wasn't enough to sustain an independent site   
   >>>> with pressure for frequent posting, so he gracefully transitioned to   
   >>>> bullshitting.  It has been years since I looked at it regularly.   
   >>>   
   >>> Exactly.   
   >>   
   >> It seems increasingly clear that his success in 2012 had more to do with   
   >> the absolutely awful competition he was up against in the world of   
   >> political reporting, not so much in his actual smarts.   
   >>   
   >> I think what's sad is how little the world of political reporting has   
   >> done to catch up to where he was in 2012. There are a few more polling   
   >> analysts, but the overall attitude in the press is still all the   
   >> analysis they need can be obtained by talking to a couple of GOP   
   >> campaign strategists.   
   >   
   >   
   > I seem to recall Silver as mostly sports stats before he dipped into   
   > politics. Once he got into the political numbers, I became a   
   > worshipper. I hung on his every word and chart. He was a breath of   
   > fresh air in the middle  of all the political twaddle, and I loved   
   > looking at the data outputs   
   >   
   > It was still at the edge of the golden age of polling back then- a lot   
   > of people still had landlines, nothing had shifted heavily onto the   
   > net- it was all pleasing and understandable to me.   
   >   
   > But everything has changed over these past 14-ish years and you   
   > practically can't take a shit without a wi-fi enabled toilet paper   
   > roller asking you to give a satisfaction rating and expectations for   
   > your next wipe.   
   >   
   > Silver made huge sums of money selling pieces of himself to large   
   > corporations a couple of times, losing some of his best working   
   > consultants along the way, and now he thinks his personal opinions are   
   > what people crave and respect - not his numbers, but his ideas/deep   
   > down feelings about society, gender, human rights and maybe a bit of   
   > politics if it's Thursday and isn't raining. Trouble is, at least   
   > IMHO, his ideas are biased and stupid.   
      
   I've mostly been looking at the sports postings lately, with a few of   
   the science postings.  Nate Silver posts are pretty rare in those   
   headings.   
      
   (Nate did quite a few during the conventions last year, when I was   
   still looking at the politics, but I haven't done the full site quite   
   so much this year what with anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and   
   sTrumptets.)   
      
   /dps   
      
      
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