The Average of Garbage is Garbage

I only had one nerve left, and the Washington Post had to grab it and twist. Grab it, with the headline “Harris’s rise in the polls has stalled, while Trump holds steady.” And then twist, with the most tortured, misleading data analysis I’ve read in a long time. Thanks to Lenny Bronner, the WaPo’s Principal Data Scientist, Elections.

What’s mystifying is that Bronner is very well qualified. You can look it up. He has a B.S. in mathematics and computational science, and an M.S. in statistics, all from Stanford University. I’m just a molecular geneticist, who always believed that if you had to use statistics you didn’t do the experiment right. So take this rant as my opinion only, and with a grain of salt.