the apparent causal relationship between doing things and the things being done is, to me, a continuing irritation
Ariel Edwards-Levy
@aedwardslevy.bsky.social
Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
A good summary from Mary Radcliffe and Cooper Burton in the above-linked piece.
some years ago I made a little joke about Gen X being a demographic cohourtney and now I find it impossible to not think that word
to anyone emailing me a press release: please be aware that I have reached my capacity for awareness today and am no long available to be aware of additional information
you can't spell "democracy" without "emo," and no, I have no idea where I'm going with this either
the TIME person of the year is the phrase "injects new uncertainty"
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if you get three dan sullivans, you can trade them in for one dan sullibus
Today is my last day at HuffPost. After 11 years, I was laid off as part of the 33% cuts at BuzzFeed. My team, the National desk, was cut from 7 reporters to 3, after being cut from 14 to 7 just over a year ago
HuffPost Union@huffpostunion.bsky.social · 3d agoA statement from the HuffPost Union @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs.
Survey options 🤝 The baked potato in my microwave "Please rotate"
it didn't say "due to technical issues" or "for reasons unrelated to personality"
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"cut and paste your darlings into a document of scraps" is the "gone to live on a farm upstate" variation of "kill your darlings"
butterfly meme [me] [10:41 am] is this [lunchtime]
Not to lean too hard into glass half full, but while this exemplifies the importance of sourcing, I think it's worth saying that this hoax did have fairly limited reach prior to being debunked. Credible aggregators didn't touch it, LA Times immediately asked the right questions.
Kevin Reuning@reuning.bsky.social · 6d ago>“I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Rahil Prakash told the Guardian on Thursday when reached by phone. “And as it turned out, it could.” The last thing we want as a society is for everyone to assume everything is bullshit.
dear catastrophe waitress/ dear catastrophe waitress/ i'm sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland
And people wonder why I'm so perpetually mad at poll questions that ask people how various factors would affect their probability of voting for a candidate
JLRay@jlray.bsky.social · 6d agoThe latest from YouGov (n ~ 7.8k) -- Good morning to everyone whose job involves communicating about probability: Just under half of Americans can correctly interpret a weather forecast! yougov.com/en-us/daily-...
spreadsheets georg, who just really enjoys a pivot table
once again asking people to stop saying very broad things about "polling" when they mean, very specifically, "ballot test questions"