all too common

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Just ran into a cluster of British public schoolboys attempting to find “legendary” drinking experiences - in Dupont Circle on a Monday night. They were about to try and get into the Kappa Alpha Psi house before I pointed out to them that that’s the *historic* frat house.

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The dynamic is that anecdotalists were very mad when polling averages revealed that anecdotes were subpar predictors for election results and then they were very happy when 2016 offered a reminder to everyone that polls themselves were subject to errors and so maybe anecdotes were just as good?

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The number of shitty analyses that depend on "polls aren't picking up X!!!!!" arguments is itself uncountable.

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This is functionally equivalent to the CBS exec who hollered at the reporter about how much better she knew Mideast politics.

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