The Danger of Being Stupid

[jpmassar]

Nate Silver does the statistical equivalent of making someone look like an idiot today. This person did a study wherein they correlated the amount of stimulus money going to a Congressional District versus its Democratic or Republican voting tendency. Democratic districts got a lot more money

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[adb_jaeger]

, but that's why you always do a sanity check on your results before you testify about them in front of Congress.

Unless, as a commenter pointed out, your goal is just to generate press.