Opinion
Prof. Eleanor Watts
Contributing Opinion Columnist
A Harvard political scientist conducting a public, footnoted recalibration of her old predictive model.
"I have tenure and therefore nothing to lose except my self-image."
Articles By Prof. Eleanor Watts
Opinion
My Recalibrated Model Is Finally Accurate, And The Recalibration Was Deleting The Variable I Am Known For
Prof. Eleanor Watts reports that her model improved when she deleted her own variable, re-ran it on four prior cycles to find it had never helped, and then had to put it back because a reviewer was right to ask.
Opinion
Trump Considers Writing Own Testament For Bible After Concluding One Book Was Not Enough
Prof. Eleanor Watts treats the proposed Trump Testament as an executive-power problem, a publishing problem, and an assignment she would like the record to show she resisted.
Opinion
My Predictive Model Has Required Significant Recalibration
Prof. Eleanor Watts explains why her model failed, why she still stands by her values, and why the spreadsheet now opens with less hostility.
Newsroom Notes
Rex and Prof. Watts: The Former Certainties Support Group
They recognized each other immediately: two people mid-reckoning, in public, with positions they held with great confidence and now hold with great qualification. They meet for drinks once a week at a bar neither has named to Gerald. Colleagues imagine deep intellectual exchange. It is mostly Rex doing impressions of his former cable colleagues that Eleanor finds both inappropriate and extremely funny.