ABSTRACT: “Shithead savant” should become a technical term in the social science branch of Science Studies, along with “trained incapacity” and “occupational psychosis”.
EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT JOHN EMERSON!
Nate Silver is a shithead savant — he’s much brighter than you and me but he’s capable of missing the point even when it’s crawling up his ass. For some reason, the Republicans have been spending millions a year on voter discouragement for decades, and for some reason, for the last several years they’ve been running a nationally coordinated voter discouragement campaign involving every Republican governor, Secretary of State, or state legislature in the country — but don’t worry, it won’t make much difference, says Silver.
College Republican crooks like Karl Rove are ten times smarter than PolSci PhDs like Nate Silver. That counterintuitive fact should be carved in the tombstone of the Democratic Party. (If you call Silver media and not political — well, the media need their own tombstone.)
“Only 2%”. 2% isn’t even a close election, it’s a solid victory.
July 16, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I’m really boggled. Two percent is a LOT of percent. One percent is a lot of percent. In winner-take-all elections, which is most of them, even 0.1 percent can be an lot. Is Silver too young to remember Florida 2000?
November 7, 2012 at 1:52 pm
[...] rich betting against the continued stupidity of the US pundit class, but — and usually like emerson I am pro creative-transformative intuition and against the soulless bead-counting technocrat [...]