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Image 1: screencap of a Nate Cohn tweet, 6:22AM today, ending:
I have no idea whether our polls (or any polls) polls be "right", too good for Harris, or too good for Trump. No one does.
Image 2: screencap of an "Office Space" scene; two interviewers ask "what would you say you do here?"
"my polls have no predictive value but they were used to peg dozens of anti-Dem news stories throughout the cycle on the front page of the newspaper anyway" your job is not what you say/think your job actually is.
IMO a cause for optimism is that EVEN if you don’t assume malicious intent, there’s just basic self-preservation motivations around not underestimating Trump support if you’re a pollster. It’s a rational hedge.
Boss: So, does your code work?
Me: I have no idea if it works, or doesn't work, or even how to determine if it's working.
Boss: So why are we paying you?
Me: Life is just full of little mysteries.
lol so many journalists have gone into “it is fine that we are putting thumbs on the scales for Trump because actually there are no scales and everything we do is meaningless.”
I say thank god we have the Nates with life time tenure with huge media conglomerates to tell us that they know nothing and are useless. But also vital to democracy.
I hope they’re paid gagillions of dollars. Totally worth it.
Financial speculation and Political speculation are amazing positions to find yourself in because you can be wrong 100% of the time and still keep your job.
Look folks, the truth is we can't investigate the issues and inform voters of their choices because that's hella expensive. So instead, we prop up an industry that takes money from wealthy donors in order to ask people bad questions and then give the information to the news hungry for cheap content.
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Image 1: screencap of a Nate Cohn tweet, 6:22AM today, ending:
I have no idea whether our polls (or any polls) polls be "right", too good for Harris, or too good for Trump. No one does.
Image 2: screencap of an "Office Space" scene; two interviewers ask "what would you say you do here?"
Me: I have no idea if it works, or doesn't work, or even how to determine if it's working.
Boss: So why are we paying you?
Me: Life is just full of little mysteries.
I hope they’re paid gagillions of dollars. Totally worth it.