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oyster · 3181 days ago · link · · parent · post: What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means | FiveThirtyEight
If they are talking about polls when they say pseudoscience they aren't really wrong. Polls are garbage because who even takes part in them anymore ? Statistics are a lot more than polls thank fuck.
Still, election statistics comes from polls. Silver's brilliance was that he didn't take polls at face value, he measured how they were measuring, as well as what, in order to turn them into psychohistory a la Hari Seldon. If you haven't read his book, you should.