• Silverseren@kbin.social
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      Any polling that is done that way at least. The issue is there also isn’t any better way to do it at this point. Most people, including myself, don’t pick up unknown numbers on our cell phones. And an internet-related poll is just begging for shenanigans and skewing.

      So, yeah, I guess polling is irrelevant, since there’s no good way to do it nowadays. The only polls that are still remotely accurate are exit polling done with the actual people voting at polls.

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        Sure explains why Disney fired Nate Silver. (Doesn’t explain why they kept his fursona Fivey, though.)

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          I was actually concerned about that when Nate got let go from FiveThirtyEight (though I think he still licenses his model to the site). Is there any further details on why he was fired?