Comment by vintermann
25 days ago
It's petty even for a corporation. It's not exactly maximizing shareholder value. But yeah, it's the sort of stuff corporations (especially media corporations) can be expected to do.
I think Nate has become better at this sort of stuff in recent years. But still, he said that Disney "hardly ever" interfered in their editorial process, oblivious to the implication.
(What it means is that Disney/ABC were perfectly willing to interfere in their editorial process, but rarely needed to since Nate said what they wanted him to say anyway).
How can we jump to that conclusion? Maybe they were only willing to interfere in that process in extreme cases.
What would that look like? Can you see a concrete scenario where it was somehow justified by ABC Disney to interfere in 538's editorial process?
There's not much extreme about Nate Silver.
Which means they interfered when they really wanted to, which is the point you were responding to.