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This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.
I'm seeing a lot about this. What makes this situation different than any other website going offline?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701122958/http://fivethirty...
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This is why people don't really buy the "but he had Trump at 30%, you just don't understand statistics" apologist line. Sure he hedged in the dying days of the campaign (a cynic might think to try to protect his credibility), but the tone overall was of a person who comprehensively failed to understand the mood of the country from beginning to end.
Which is a problem because these election predictions are not just pure "mathematical models" and "data driven" like 538 would have had you believe. What mathematical model should be used? What data should and should not be used? At some point those things are based on the modeller's understanding of reality.
Love Ben but title can simply be: Index of FiveThirtyEight articles preserved by the Internet Archive
Those 2015-16 ones sure aged poorly, I'm reminded of this https://i.imgur.com/6Z9QQj3.jpeg This is why people don't really buy the "but he had Trump at 30%, you just don't understand statistics" apologist line. Sure he hedged in the dying days of the campaign (a cynic might think to try to protect his credibility), but the tone overall was of a person who comprehensively failed to understand the mood of the country f…
This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.
Don't we need more than an index of Archive.org because whomever controls the domain could robots.txt these out of existence if they wanted to?
https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
