Steve Kornacki just admitted that he didn’t think much about the fact that Bernie wouldn’t be leading if his opponents dropped out and I want to throw my remote through the TV.
Jesus H. Christmas. This was not decoding the human genome.
Jesus H. Christmas. This was not decoding the human genome.
And let me just add to this:
I ran analytics groups. I love data. I love analytics.
There is a certain baseline competency in analytics just like there is in any industry. You don’t have to be a great analyst to know the most obvious questions or spot the most obvious dynamics.
I ran analytics groups. I love data. I love analytics.
There is a certain baseline competency in analytics just like there is in any industry. You don’t have to be a great analyst to know the most obvious questions or spot the most obvious dynamics.
Steve Kornacki is the lead data analyst for the largest left-leaning network in the world.
When he “doesn’t think much” about obvious dynamics even rudimentary analysis would reveal, it tilts coverage - and that coverage misleads viewers about actual elections.
When he “doesn’t think much” about obvious dynamics even rudimentary analysis would reveal, it tilts coverage - and that coverage misleads viewers about actual elections.
Bad analysis doesn’t just fail to inform viewers, it misinforma them.
Ask yourself this:
Where would be right now if the media had asked the most obvious question after 2016 - how much of Bernie’s 2016 support was just anti-Hillary voting? - and realized it was half.
Ask yourself this:
Where would be right now if the media had asked the most obvious question after 2016 - how much of Bernie’s 2016 support was just anti-Hillary voting? - and realized it was half.
Where would be if the media hadn’t spent the last year anointing Bernie as a front runner with an upside simply because analysts failed to even ask let alone discern that his true support was and is in the mid-20’s?
I can tell you where we’d be:
We’d be in a vigorous primary with viable candidacies of multiple other candidates who were pushed out by shitty analysis wrongfully concluding that a guy who is now two Tuesdays from dead in the water was actually a front runner
We’d be in a vigorous primary with viable candidacies of multiple other candidates who were pushed out by shitty analysis wrongfully concluding that a guy who is now two Tuesdays from dead in the water was actually a front runner
Bad analysis begets bad coverage.
And this year’s bad analysis promoted the fiction of an ascendant Bernie at the expense of Kamala and Elizabeth and Beto and Pete and Amy and every other candidate.
And THAT pisses me off.
And this year’s bad analysis promoted the fiction of an ascendant Bernie at the expense of Kamala and Elizabeth and Beto and Pete and Amy and every other candidate.
And THAT pisses me off.
And I’m going to add one last ranting postscript.
You know who should be most pissed off by the poor analysis and resulting poor coverage?
Progressives.
Had it not been for for unexamined, yet readily testable fiction, that Bernie had a defined ceiling below electability...
You know who should be most pissed off by the poor analysis and resulting poor coverage?
Progressives.
Had it not been for for unexamined, yet readily testable fiction, that Bernie had a defined ceiling below electability...
...we would have had a chance to fully advance and consider the candidacies of other candidates more progressive than Joe Biden.
The poor analysis and resulting exaggeration of Bernie’s true electability begot the downfall of not only Bernie but every more progressive candidate.
The poor analysis and resulting exaggeration of Bernie’s true electability begot the downfall of not only Bernie but every more progressive candidate.
Bernie’s supporters blame the media for him not winning.
If they understood data analysis, they’d be more mad that they thought he could while more palatable second choices died on the vine as that fiction met a hard death by mid-March.
Ok. I’m done.
If they understood data analysis, they’d be more mad that they thought he could while more palatable second choices died on the vine as that fiction met a hard death by mid-March.
Ok. I’m done.
