Nope.

This is a false narrative of the polls as they were taken, as the election occurred, and how people reacted to it. It’s just as much bunk as both the lay and expert interpretation of the polls generally were during with the election.

This commenter is much more perspicacious about what really occurred and the issues involved.

Another relatively-undiscussed factor is that the polls and all the reporting about them affect how people vote — and if they do so or not.

No matter how much analysis or calculus you throw at that sort of problem, it won’t get you close to an answer.

The narrative that the polls were not wrong is used by Clinton supporters to show (somehow) that she “really” won or should have or something — I don’t really understand it. What I linked to is just a more subtle version of this and just as much garbage as the rest.

Today I was thinking about the intersection of controversiality and correctness of opinions that I hold.

After sifting through, I think the opinion that is both most repugnant to the most people and the most likely to be correct is this one: that most objections — especially objections from women — against sex work and against sex robots is that this disapproval is not expressed for any moral reason, even if that’s the stated one. And it’s not about protecting other women, or about trafficking or any of those cosmetic reasons.

As far as I can tell, it’s anger about competition. About possible better competition.

You can tell by the absolute fury both ideas evoke — said fury that is expressly not brought about by actual human slavery or murder. Or even actual rape.

So that is my most controversial opinion that I think is most likely (about 80% in my estimation) to be the right take.

Get your angry faces out!

Profound realization:
Much of SCRUM is a hack to force engineer boys to practice communication and consensus in the absence of women.

— Dana Fried (@leftoblique) July 29, 2017

Yes! But to be fair, engineer girls are often much like their male peers….