>Where political journalists’ information is evaluated through a subjective and nebulous professional/cultural sense of judgment, his evaluation is systematic and scientifically based.
Oh, bullcrap. Silver is hand weighting different polls based on whether or not he thinks they're reliable. That, in turn, is based on his own " subjective and nebulous professional/cultural sense of judgment".
In other words, he's doing exactly what the political journalists are doing and then smearing a thin layer of math over it. This isn't "scientifically based" at all.
Oh, bullcrap. Silver is hand weighting different polls based on whether or not he thinks they're reliable. That, in turn, is based on his own " subjective and nebulous professional/cultural sense of judgment".
In other words, he's doing exactly what the political journalists are doing and then smearing a thin layer of math over it. This isn't "scientifically based" at all.