Nate Silver's being awful damn quiet

[nobody's_hero]

AKA The official Nate-Silver-fking-sucks-ass as a pollster thread

 

[nobody's_hero]

Quick reference:

FL results at the moment with 99% reporting:

Trump 56.2%
Harris 42.9%

 

[TheCount]

You know he said it was going to be Trump, right?

 

[nobody's_hero]

You know he said it was going to be Trump, right?

yeah, and did you know you can accurately predict the results of a football game when there's 3 seconds on the clock in the 4th quarter, and one team is leading the other by 3 touchdowns?

Nate Silver is a clown. Not some guru.

The polling industry needs to collapse.

 

[TheCount]

yeah, and did you know you can accurately predict the results of a football game when there's 3 seconds on the clock in the 4th quarter, and one team is leading the other by 3 touchdowns?

Nate Silver is a clown. Not some guru.

The polling industry needs to collapse.

He's been saying it would be Trump pretty much the whole year.

Nate Silver: Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election, but Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opinion/election-polls-results-trump-harris.html



The man is living rent free in so many heads and he doesn't even do polls. They just know they're supposed to dislike him.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Nate Silver: Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election, but Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine

Can you literally not see the double-speak in that one phrase?

'how to give an answer without actually giving an answer.'

This guy is brought in front of cameras on mainstream networks for interviews to sell snake oil to the viewers.

Nate Silver *is* the very definition of a grifter. You can subscribe to his website to see his latest and greatest prediction models to be told either:

'hey it could be anyone's ball game'

or

'we're close enough to the obvious result now that I'm ready to make a bold prediction'

https://www.natesilver.net/about