From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 06:49:29 -0700 (PDT), Richard Hershberger   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 4:45:47 PM UTC-4, Boron wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Could you expand on Silver selling pieces of himself?  I stopped paying   
   attention long ago, but I suspect this might have considerable explanatory   
   power.   
   >   
   >Richard Hershberger   
      
      
   This is pretty much the history of FiveThirtyEight.  To me, the   
   corporate partnerships, NYT, etc, became the raison d'être, and while   
   I cannot fault a person for running a business, the polling purist in   
   me just wasn't interested the same way.   
      
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