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Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy.bsky.social

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Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Mar 24

Excited to share some tips for writing about polls for anyone coming in cold to the subject!

(Pictured: a thing on which pollsters are probably not calling you these days).

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · Mar 24

How do you read a poll? CNN polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy walks you through it yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...

How to Read a Poll

CNN polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy walks you through everything you need to know.

yourfirstbyline.substack.com

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 7h

why would I read that as "crosstab di Marmelatta"

(looks delicious!)

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 8h

on balance, I think it's been very beneficial that "talking" to an LLM immediately activates my strongest person -with-limited-conversational-energy* tendencies

*look I also cannot bear one more round of Internet Introvert discourse

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 9h

(it should also be noted here that I am a hypocrite)

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Sep 12

I do also feel that I should disclose here that I referred to myself in an IRL conversation this week as "fundamentals-pilled"

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10h

what if Old but also Still Quite Online

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10h

knew I forgot one!!

J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 10h

i'm a suffixpilled maxxingcel

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10h

suffixes I would like to see less of, an incomplete list:
-maxxing
-pilled

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 13h

Got a new job advocating for classical Greek architecture

I'm a columnist

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 13h

once again I will say that if Variety can come up with balanced, mutually-exclusive response scales in their fun little embedded-article reader surveys, so can everyone else

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 13h

got a new job making genetically altered clones

I'm a copy editor

Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 13h

Got a new job reviewing wizardry equipment

I'm a staff writer

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 14h

"i'm downstairs"

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Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 14h

What predicts which NYC Democrats backed Cuomo or Mamdani in the primary?

I use March/April (green lines) & May/June (black lines) @today.yougov.com surveys to examine the attitudes that predict who backed Cuomo or Mamdani.

The most predictive question for both? Attitudes on police spending.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 14h

what a list

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

7/ A small sampling of notable people who were tracked using Alatmides/FirstWAP tech. Why and by whom...unclear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Who Was Tracked

Altamides targeted a phone linked to actor Jared Leto four times in 2012.

Five tracking attempts were made on a phone associated with Asma al-Assad, the ousted first lady of Syria, in 2013. Attempts were also made to track the phone of her sister-in-law.

In 2009, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki was tracked more than 1,o00 times.

In 2013, 18 attempts were made to track a phone linked to Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15h

i'm glad the important traditions are continuing to be handed down

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15h

unfortunately the fiction trope of a character being told to "turn on the news" and immediately encountering the plot relevant information does not always translate beautifully to the real and very crowded news environment!

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 15h

“why is no one talking about this” is especially acute in an era of algorithmic media consumption, but at its core is the much older belief that if something were really important you’d have been directly and immediately informed in your preferred way on schedule

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15h

do the 6-7 kids even know why six is afraid of seven

(it's because "seven ate nine" although I do appreciate the child who informed us upon hearing this joke that it's because "7 is bigger." fair!)

Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 16h

“This is very close to middle-schoolers’ previous favorite number, 69,” Sean Rainville, a math YouTuber, says of the figure charged with innuendo that once had no rival in the number arena. “There’s some relief for teachers that this meme is not sexual.”
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/si...

The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers

‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’

www.wsj.com

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15h

going undiscovered for years because the inevitable
"i think somebody here is a mole"
"well, yes, um, we all are"
"no, they're not. they're not a mole. they're a MOLE"

conversations prove fruitless

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

i can never decide which flavor to choose

it's quite a dilemur

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think so!

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Jun 29

A bit of a dive into the political engagement divide in American politics: www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/p...

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

initially misread the one item as "make charts and tables in a news article" and was like, that's very specific but sure

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

Love this kind of research!

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 1d

Navigate with a compass? Fix a car engine? What Americans say they can (and can’t) do

Most Americans express confidence in their ability to do various practical tasks, but they are much less confident in their ability to do other tasks that require more specialized knowledge.

www.pewresearch.org

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

extremely abbott and costello voice:

poster WHERE house?

that's what I'm telling you

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

found the place where you and all your internet friends hang out

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

this feels very "If on a winter's night," by which I mean I too now want to read this

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

same, but I probably need to include a disclosure in the conflicts section of how fervently I want this to be true

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

has anyone actually proved a causal relationship between doing things and the things being done

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