Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports
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From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
In retrospect, we shouldve seen it coming. It was only a matter of time before the war on expertise spilled over into the cells of Nate Silvers spreadsheets. In fact, in some ways it had already. Turns out thatnothing could have prepared Silver better for the slings and arrows of a surly and willfully obtuse pundit class than working on the fringes of sportswriting over the past decade.