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Originally Posted by BOLplayer
I feel exactly the opposite. Their sports projections are fantastic, I could give a crap what they think about politics.
What about their sports projections are fantastic? Are you betting them against the market and killing it? If not, maybe their sports projections actually suck?
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At multiple points 538.com had Trump at 11% chance to win. That means, on that particular day, if you asked Nate Silver, "Hey, Nate, what are the chances Trump wins this one, eh?" he would have said "Oh about 10% and that's being generous *chuckles*"
There is a point to assigning probabilities; he thought Trump had basically no shot and he was dead wrong. He was laughably wrong even at the time.
That's actually completely wrong. 538 had 3 different publicly available models: now-cast, polls-only and polls-plus. Now-cast was their projection if the election were held on that date based on recent pols, polls-only was a model using only polls and polls-plus was a model using polls, historical data, state of the economy, etc. Silver said polls-plus was the most accurate and what he would use to bet if he were a betting man (lol). The lowest his projection ever got on Trump on polls-plus was 15.4%. So your idea that he would have said something like that is not only wrong but idiotic. I also have a recollection of him lambasting the media in October of 2016 for calling the election over. Again, not someone who would say "oh about 10 percent and that's being generous". You clearly have an issue with Silver's politics (they're not mine either) that is clouding your judgment here. There's plenty to take issue with for 538 but this is way off the mark.