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by Draesk
Ah, I'd forgotten about Linzer, what with Nate Silver taking the brunt of things. As much as I'm glad to see vindication for science, it's hardly a huge surprise. What I do find surprising, however, is the quote from Gallup in the right margin of that article ("What the pollsters think"). I think they've got the completely wrong end of the stick - Linzer and co. admit that the core of their data is based around polls like those; they aggregate multiple such sources and apply mathematical formulae to get an accurate picture. It's the pundits and their flapping gums that they're taking shots at. I don't know why Frank Newport is so bent out of shape over this - they're both working on the side of statistical and mathematical data, rather than hot-air.