I think that there's a lot of value in amateur data science from an "eyeballs" perspective. Young people want more "intelligent" coverage, but not so dense that they can't understand it. The sort of nitpicking you're engaging in suggests that you're not the target audience.
This is why I'm looking forward to more and more journals becoming open access. I think that for people who are dissatisfied with 538, understanding academic publications would not be too big of a leap.
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I think that there's a lot of value in amateur data science from an "eyeballs" perspective. Young people want more "intelligent" coverage, but not so dense that they can't understand it. The sort of nitpicking you're engaging in suggests that you're not the target audience.
This is why I'm looking forward to more and more journals becoming open access. I think that for people who are dissatisfied with 538, understanding academic publications would not be too big of a leap.