If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.