Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver

Re:Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver by rhizome on Saturday November 03, 2012 @01:30PM (#4737247)

Quantitative journalism. In light of that term I think we can see that Fox/HuffPo/etc. practices qualitative journalism, which I would translate to "feelings-based."

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Re:Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver by neilk on Saturday November 03, 2012 @11:47PM (#4738868)

Julian Assange had a similar term, "scientific journalism". Scientific in the sense that you have to show your raw data.

Nate is a hybrid. The details of his model are not on Github or anything, but he does describe his general approach, and he works from publicly available information.

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Re:Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver by tomrod on Saturday November 03, 2012 @09:30PM (#4738566)

Don't forget Engadget to that list, as today's editorial (posted earlier) shows.

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Re:Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver by rhizome on Monday November 05, 2012 @01:00PM (#4744899)

I rarely deign to type the names of any Nick Denton properties.

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