Welcome to Nate Silver’s Haunted House, where mind-bending terror meets data and statistics! That’s right: even at the height of the Presidential election, we here at FiveThirtyEight still find the time to operate our very own haunted house. …
Cast your eyes over yonder: there’s an online-only poll with a very small sample size, but it’s being treated as if it’s methodologically sound! And here’s a poll that shows Clinton with forty-six per cent, Donald Trump with thirty-nine per cent, and Gary Johnson with seven per cent. That may seem normal. But wait. . . . Look closer. . . . Everyone who responded to the poll died thirty years ago! CONT.
Luke Burns, The New Yorker