Analysts Losing Credibility, Say Analysts
With the nation teetering on the brink of empiricism, analysts warn that appeals to the authority of analysts may no longer prove sufficient.
“The country has given up on them, er… I mean us,” said one prominent analyst. “The public is just tired of hearing one analyst after another tell people what they themselves supposedly believe.”
Inside the analysts camp, embattled true believers doggedly insist that notion is utter nonsense and offer hopeful scenarios for their recovery.
"Times like this create public anxiety," said one hopeful analyst, “but we’re focused on projecting the mood of the public with or without their cooperation, or even, should it come to that, their input.”
Overnight is always a lifetime in politics, and analysts have been pegged wrong before, only to confound their skeptics by rebounding.
“Analysts still command the lion’s share of the press, as well as almost all the speaking engagement dollars,” said one analyst backer. “If they start to reflect majority opinions accurately, they could see a real come back.”
A recent Fuzznik opinion poll showed that 53% of the public believed analysts were “akin to something I scraped from the bottom of my shoe.” That’s up from 44% a mere six months ago.
“They’re past the point of recovery,” noted a prominent critic of impeccable credentials. “The public is way ahead of the analyst class, and they’ve lost faith in them.”
“The country has given up on them, er… I mean us,” said one prominent analyst. “The public is just tired of hearing one analyst after another tell people what they themselves supposedly believe.”
Inside the analysts camp, embattled true believers doggedly insist that notion is utter nonsense and offer hopeful scenarios for their recovery.
"Times like this create public anxiety," said one hopeful analyst, “but we’re focused on projecting the mood of the public with or without their cooperation, or even, should it come to that, their input.”
Overnight is always a lifetime in politics, and analysts have been pegged wrong before, only to confound their skeptics by rebounding.
“Analysts still command the lion’s share of the press, as well as almost all the speaking engagement dollars,” said one analyst backer. “If they start to reflect majority opinions accurately, they could see a real come back.”
A recent Fuzznik opinion poll showed that 53% of the public believed analysts were “akin to something I scraped from the bottom of my shoe.” That’s up from 44% a mere six months ago.
“They’re past the point of recovery,” noted a prominent critic of impeccable credentials. “The public is way ahead of the analyst class, and they’ve lost faith in them.”
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Sunday March 19, 2006 at 11:59pm
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