• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    “Currently, there is no consensus on the face of the Democrat Party, as a majority of voters either give the title to AOC (26%) or simply say there is none (26%),” Co/efficient concluded.

    Never heard of Co/efficient, but “Democrat Party” is a bit of a red flag. From mediabiasfactcheck:

    FiveThirtyEight, an expert on measuring and rating pollster performance, has evaluated 20 polls by co/efficient, earning 0.7 stars for accuracy, indicating they are Mixed Factual by MBFC’s criteria. They also conclude that their polling moderately favors the Right with a score of -2.7, which equates to a Right-Center polling bias. In general, co/efficient is considered moderately accurate and demonstrates a right-leaning bias in polling.

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      5 months ago

      MBFC gives The Guardian and Breitbart equivalent ratings for factuality, which is patently ridiculous

      It’s not a reliable gauge of anything, and it’s harmful to trust its rankings

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      However, co/efficient also states that it provides research for mostly Republicans, such as Gregory Steube (R-FL)

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      How does Media Bias Fact Check assess the work done by Fivethirtyeight that they do not have access to as fivethirtyeight does not publish it?

      Also are we teally accepting Fivethirtyeight as a good source anymore?

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          No, they had their own model that Nate Silver built every year he was there. IDK who took over after he left.

          Regardless they were shuttered last month. Before the closure they removed Rassmussen for being “rightward biased” despite Rassmussen being more accurate in their predictions than fivethirtyeight