The cracked looking glass of public opinion polls 📊 April 18, 2021

Polls are often wrong, and sometimes meaningfully biased — but nothing else can do what they do.

Dear reader,

I am almost done with the revised draft of my book. I’m sure many of you want me to just print the damn thing already so you can buy a million copies, and maybe even read it. Me too! But the process is out of my control. I am told it takes months to edit copy and print galleys and send metadata to book sellers and get reviews and on and on.…