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Bijou Smith

The statistics story is full of both insight and potential for abuse. If Nate Silver wanted to be transparent he would point out Ted Cruz votes in the same statistical cluster as Sanders and Warren. In Senate voting the clusters are irrelevant and the outliers are where ALL the information is. You can see this by doing a kmeans cluster analysis on <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes</a>#session=299&chamber[]=1 If you choose k=3 clusters you will see a clear split into three clusters: Dems, Repugs and a Mix. And in the Mix cluster you see most wannabe presidential candidates. It is always shocking to me when professional statisticians show their ignorance of basic statistical lore, like the remark attributed to Disraeli - "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."