""Oh?" the pollster said, looking at the men. He was old, somewhere from 55 to 80 (with a 99 percent confidence interval), and wore a wide-brimmed hat that looked his same age, or up to three years older than he was (with a 95 percent confidence interval). He looked cross, though not as cross as some cross-tabs that he had considered."
""It has nothing to do with the current presidency and how the president bullies people, especially the people responsible for numbers," the big man said. "It's not that he famously believes that his own net worth fluctuates depending on his mood, and that he seems to think other numbers should do the same thing-jobs numbers and poll numbers and vote totals and interest rates-and that if they don't, it is because the numbers have ganged up on him maliciously.""
Two identically attired men from headquarters approach a pollster in a corral to deliver unspecified news. The pollster leans against a split-rail fence watching horses that have appeared after each completed poll since a Gallup misspelling eighty-eight years ago. The men insist the matter is unrelated to presidential approval or to the president's habit of bullying numbers and claiming his net worth and other statistics should fluctuate with his mood. The pollster, described with statistical confidence intervals for his age and hat, replies wryly that he could draw imputations. The men express unease at the personified approval-rating horses.
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