Nate Silver: Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump’s Polls

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Nate Silver needs to stick to averaging polls: it's all he's good at! Every time he tries any more in depth analysis, he totally embarrasses himself. I don't know what that low energy beta's obsession with Trump is... jealousy? Some sort of sick repressed lust? Either way, I think after this election he's done. ESPN is run by smart guys; they're not going to keep funding his failure of a vanity project.

[Lief 🗽]

Thank you Torie. I agree with you that the only honest position here is to shrug and say "I don't know." I give Trump about a 40% chance of winning this point; he is far from a lock! I just get angry when these smug know it alls, like Mr. Silver, continue to make definitive predictions and call those who disagree with them ignorants, when they've been CONSISTENTLY and DISASTROUSLY wrong for months now (if you had made bets based on Nate's odds in August, you would have lost boatloads of money by this point).

[Lief 🗽]

I think Atlas is just intimidated by and jealous of Nate Silver.  It's the only reason I can think of why you people seem to have such an irrational hate boner for him.

Certainly not intimidated; he's a fraud. Jealous is fair; this guy's analysis is mostly garbage at this point and if he posted on the Atlas Forum he'd probably be regarded as a dumb, consistently wrong hack. But instead he's paid seven figures by ESPN to average polls.

[Lief 🗽]

Nate Silver needs to stick to averaging polls: it's all he's good at! Every time he tries any more in depth analysis, he totally embarrasses himself. I don't know what that low energy beta's obsession with Trump is... jealousy? Some sort of sick repressed lust? Either way, I think after this election he's done. ESPN is run by smart guys; they're not going to keep funding his failure of a vanity project.

Wow, BEAUTIFUL prediction! Thank you LIEF!