dickleyjones

Are you a wizard or something? You have this amazing knowledge that no one else seems to have. Or, you are full of crap. I wonder which?

well, we already know about voter suppression, gerrymandering, "lobbying", and all the other things parties implement to game the system. if it is not cheating, at best it is an extreme abuse of power...semantics. as for actual cases of fraud in past, there are a plethora of examples: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/#choose-a-state https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwifu6n19OvsAhVJbs0KHQ1nBT8QFjAJegQICxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.demos.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpublications%2FAnalysis.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2ckvbztoYNwlAC31hWVjow https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/10/relax-john-mccain-stolen-elections-are-as-american-as-apple-pie.html or read a book, (hardcover if that's what you need): Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition by Tracy Campbell or a journal article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40972109 it goes on and on...

both parties cheat. in every election. this is not new. it is a given. win big or be at risk of losing this way.

If you do math wrong, you can prove anything?

polls are not wrong. they asked questions, people answered, they reported it. what is wrong is extrapolating with any certainty.

i do not care if it was legal or not. don't care about the penalty either. this hit was my favourite play of the game, this is what we need, our defense to stop taking punishment and start dealing it out themselves!

as someone who has actually had an terrible encounter with the mafia, i hope they put the moniker away forever. i don't care who owns it, it is distasteful at best.

Oh. My. God. . . . . . . . . We're Famous!!!

this, and by a large margin.

this is politics. winning is all that matters and no party gives a damn how they get there. Rs are just as bad as Ds. same goes for me in canada, couple more parties hanging around but they all would do anything to win. winners get to do things, losers get to do nothing, when that is what is on the line strategy says win first be moral later

What is the issue here? Rs are in charge, they can do as they please, within the rules, including changing some rules. If and when the Ds are in charge, they can do as they please, same rules apply. Seems simple to me.

That the quality or quantity that one "makes faces" is a terribly unreliable measurement of leadership ability.

does the talking about the the exact same stuff include gatekeeping?

He doesn't care to find out? Is that not what pff purports to do? So they admit their system is flawed and do not care to fix it.

certainly this point applies to both Ds and Rs. reward their behaviour, expect more of the same.

maybe not trump, seems like some people have though.

the issue here is not trump's current health or what people say about it. he should get the best treatment possible and will hopefully come out of it ok. the actual issue are the obvious mistakes and ignorance when it comes to keeping the white house clean and safe. they have all of the resources needed to make it the safest environment possible. if only someone had had the will.

Rct are a terrible gold standard. They are routinely misinterpreted and misused. Damn shame really because Rct are useful, just not as useful as those invested in ebm would have you believe.

Welp, this whole thing sure looks baaaaaad on trump and team. It will hurt him in the election to be sure...just how much remains to be seen.

i must disagree, well, mostly. my beef with the pundits and stats lovers concerning allen has been that they use statistics improperly and are in complete denial about that fact. there were so many confounding variables where allen is concerned. yes, he improved more than many qbs have. but he had so much reason that he might improve, namely, he never played anywhere near an nfl level when many others had. wyoming isn't much prep for the nfl whereas other schools are. so in a sense, allen has been a few years behind comparable qbs and instead of learning in college he had to learn on the job in the NFL. now things are slowing down for him and he can play. it is not all that shocking when you look at it in context. i don't think it was a conspiracy regarding allen. i just think the pundits used their supposed math/analysis skills to interpret data and they did it wrong (and they continue to do it wrong). the analytics crowd need some hard lessons in statistical analysis and allen has provided that in droves. in their defense, there is a tonne of poor statistics going around in this world in more important sectors than sports.

I don't understand this thinking. It seems you are assuming there is only one option, an absolute "best" to be found. Is that really possible? Is the "best" woman (in this case) measurably worse than the "best" man? maybe i'm an ignorant canadian but i think there are probably many people who would do a great job, men and women alike.

It's 350 pages so it must be good! It is ok, most people really do not have a grasp on sampling and statistical modelling yet conclusions are drawn and systems are implemented based on such shoddy science. We see it almost every day now. PFF is a prime example.

McDermott tends to bring draft picks on slow, under the pretense that they must "earn it". And so it is for Epenesa.

you guarantee what physics may show, but don't know physics. quite the guarantee!