onsdag 12 april 2017

Statistics as religion in Trump’s America

Statistics as religion in Trump’s America – perplex.city
How Trump’s election and policies have challenged statistics’ status as an objective science.

On November 23rd, 2015, in response to Donald Trump’s modest but increasing odds to secure the Republican Party’s nomination, FiveThirtyEight’s founder and prognosticator-in-chief Nate Silver tweeted out a reassurance:

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