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The Quantitative Fallacy
This is the long-delayed second installation in a series about the complexities of using data in Democratic politics. You can read the introductory post here. We’re going to be discussing the idea of the McNamara fallacy (or quantitative fallacy) today. To recap, the core idea behind the fallacy is that focusing only on aspects of
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The Best and the Brightest
(This is first of a series of posts about the potential pitfalls of quantitative metrics in politics. The second post of the series is here!) In November 2016, I was sat in the cafeteria of a graduate student dorm building, feeling the collective disbelief growing among the collection of nerds, every laptop rapidly cycling the