Holy cow. You just reminded me of why I shouldn't renew my subscription to the NYTimes. It seems to me to have been declining for years, based upon various news stories and opinion pieces (Sen. Cotton!) that mangled statements of fact. Also, suspicious puff pieces apparently designed to pay off sources. Indeed, although this might be a statistical fluke, during IARPA's Geopolitical Forecasting Competition we found a strong correlation between forecasters who cited the New York Times in their rationales, and their forecasting accuracy.
Holy cow. You just reminded me of why I shouldn't renew my subscription to the NYTimes. It seems to me to have been declining for years, based upon various news stories and opinion pieces (Sen. Cotton!) that mangled statements of fact. Also, suspicious puff pieces apparently designed to pay off sources. Indeed, although this might be a statistical fluke, during IARPA's Geopolitical Forecasting Competition we found a strong correlation between forecasters who cited the New York Times in their rationales, and their forecasting accuracy.