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Read this korrent: Polling bias is basically random from cycle to cycle.
Polling bias is basically random from cycle to cycle.
Last stated today
5 Nov 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-11-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The direction of polling bias is unpredictable — tap to centre the map on it
The direction of polling bias is unpredictable
Last stated yesterday
4 Nov 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-11-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Polls may be biased in either direction — tap to centre the map on it
Polls may be biased in either direction
Last stated a month ago
3 Oct 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-10-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The direction of polling error is hard to predict because pollsters are trying to correct for past errors. — tap to centre the map on it
The direction of polling error is hard to predict because pollsters are trying to correct for past errors.
Last stated 6 days ago
30 Oct 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-10-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Across nine election years since 2008, polls were biased against Democrats once, against Republicans four times, and basically unbiased four times. — tap to centre the map on it
Across nine election years since 2008, polls were biased against Democrats once, against Republicans four times, and basically unbiased four times.
Last stated a month ago
3 Oct 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-10-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: State-by-state polling errors are correlated in midterms but not as much as in presidential years. — tap to centre the map on it
State-by-state polling errors are correlated in midterms but not as much as in presidential years.
Last stated 2 days ago
3 Nov 2026
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Nate Silver — holds since 2026-11-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Small polling errors can produce large electoral effects. — tap to centre the map on it
Small polling errors can produce large electoral effects.
Last stated a month ago
23 Sept 2026
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Josh Marshall — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Debiasing has largely failed, and that is fine, because the biases identified are experience-built heuristics that only look like biases in hindsight. — tap to centre the map on it
Debiasing has largely failed, and that is fine, because the biases identified are experience-built heuristics that only look like biases in hindsight.
Last stated 4 years ago
9 Aug 2022
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Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decision-bias research is itself biased, studying only how heuristics fail and never the strength they supply. — tap to centre the map on it
Decision-bias research is itself biased, studying only how heuristics fail and never the strength they supply.
Last stated 4 years ago
9 Aug 2022
GK
Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: 8Cr13MoV is no longer an acceptable steel for a knife, because the brands that built their name on it have moved on. — tap to centre the map on it
8Cr13MoV is no longer an acceptable steel for a knife, because the brands that built their name on it have moved on.
Last stated a month ago
27 Sept 2026
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Anthony Sculimbrene — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A continental army's first mission is to keep the regime in power, not to defend the border — which is what the People's Liberation Army is for. — tap to centre the map on it
A continental army's first mission is to keep the regime in power, not to defend the border — which is what the People's Liberation Army is for.
Last stated 5 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it. — tap to centre the map on it
A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
Last stated a year ago
15 May 2025
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on AI is unlikely. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on AI is unlikely.
Last stated 4 months ago
18 Jul 2026
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John Horgan — holds since 2026-07-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
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Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer. — tap to centre the map on it
A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer.
Last stated 4 months ago
13 Jul 2026
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James Talarico — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ballot law unfair to either race injures whites more lastingly than Black citizens — tap to centre the map on it
A ballot law unfair to either race injures whites more lastingly than Black citizens
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Booker T. Washington — holds since c. 1899 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company can run on truth only if its leader deeply desires it and rules with a firm hand rather than by democracy. — tap to centre the map on it
A company can run on truth only if its leader deeply desires it and rules with a firm hand rather than by democracy.
Last stated 2 years ago
6 Mar 2025
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Kapil Gupta — holds since 2025-03-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company is not a democracy: every voice should be heard and then one person decides, and the decision should not be the popular one. — tap to centre the map on it
A company is not a democracy: every voice should be heard and then one person decides, and the decision should not be the popular one.
Last stated 5 months ago
2 Jun 2026
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Mark Pincus — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are
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