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Re:The fivethirtyeight R package by ivraatiems on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:52PM (#13421683)
Agreed. It's a lie, and a particularly boneheaded one.

Is that occurrence enough to conclude that all their reporting, on everything, is flawed? Because if so I think I could find similar examples from effectively any mainstream source, and any partisan (HuffPo, Breitbart, et.c) ones as well.

Who exactly should we trust when our criteria exclude everyone?

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Re:The fivethirtyeight R package by gfosco on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:06PM (#13421856)
No one said everything they do is fake news. I said it would be hard to have confidence in the data. Yuge difference.
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Re:The fivethirtyeight R package by ivraatiems on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:20PM (#13422002)
So there is reporting from CNN that you would trust? What reporting is that?
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