But that doesn’t mean it’s without value

• Ben
• November 23, 2020
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Colorado Public Radio’s laudable attempt to substantiate a false claim in their story opens the door for a primer on common electoral analysis mistakes. Such as not using data from the district in question, using levels instead of rates for comparison, cherry-picking data to fit a pre-set narrative, confusing candidate and district performance, failing to account for differences in district geography, and ignoring Occam’s Razor.

Obamacare sets up a decade of healthcare reporting

• Ben
• December 25, 2019
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If there’s one thing I hate, it’s baseless political opinions. So when The Colorado Sun posited the question of the most important story of the year and decade, I analyzed their own data to find the answer.