| Platapus |
11-04-20 08:47 AM |
I need to organize an intervention for The Frau to get her away from the TV. She is riveted watching non-reporting of no data.
I am trying to tell her that it will be days before we know anything.
The issue is that she is watching minute-by-minute reporting of data that takes hours to be published.
This makes the news reporting more resemble lousy half-time shows in football games where washed up football players are sharing their "what if" and "this is because" opinions on what "will" happen in the second half. :doh:
I watched a little of this with her and some of the reporting was along the line of:
"If Trump wins a state with 5 Electors, his number of electors will increase by 5". Man, I gotta sit down for this type of breaking news.
Then another "expert" reported, that it is not about addition, but also subtraction.
"If Trump wins a state with 5 electors not only will his number of electors increase by 5, but most likely the number of electors for Biden will decrease by 5!"
Whoa Whoa Whoa, there. That's too much sciencey mathy stuff there professor. You better draw a picture to make this concept clear... Addition AND subtraction???
And they did. They all have these fancy interactive displays where they can turn states on and off in relation to candidates. Colors flash and change and number bar graphs change.... and it represents nothing new.
And The Frau is eating this up with a big spoon. I am trying to tell her that they are just playing math "what if" games.
We have incomplete data and will continue to have incomplete data for a while.
But I am impressed at how the news anchors can keep acting all excited for hours with the same data. They should hire them to do football half time shows.
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