[ChildOfThe60s]

Reporters and the news media in general think that statistical analysis is a simple business of gathering numbers and putting them in columns. They have no idea it is much more complicated than that. And certainly far more complicated than a bunch of partisan hacks could understand.
Remember, these are people that believe their own polls

[lepton]

Reporters and the news media in general think that statistical analysis is a simple business of gathering numbers and putting them in columns. They have no idea it is much more complicated than that. And certainly far more complicated than a bunch of partisan hacks could understand.
Remember, these are people that believe their own polls

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The “$500 million, divided by 357 million people, is greater than $1 million dollars” fiasco is pretty good proof.

Keeping especially in mind that that was a tweet/post previously found by Brian Williams hours before and that he’d been thinking about, on a prepared segment, likely with at least a few hours and a staff to at least glance at it, and they still botched it so badly.