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William Davies in the Guardian gives an explanation for the loss of trust in experts and the rise of populism and post-truth politics: Statistical categories and methods didn’t evolve to keep pace with rapid changes in society and the economy. As a result, their generalizations became increasingly divorced from individual experience and they—and people who relied on them—lost credibility.

Even as the ability of statistics to accurately represent the world declines, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril. A post-statistical society is a potentially frightening proposition - not because it would lack any forms of truth or expertise altogether, but because it would drastically privatize them.

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Riddick wrote:William Davies in the Guardian gives an explanation for the loss of trust in experts and the rise of populism and post-truth politics: Statistical categories and methods didn’t evolve to keep pace with rapid changes in society and the economy. As a result, their generalizations became increasingly divorced from individual experience and they—and people who relied on them—lost credibility. FULL STORY

Translation: If you keep asking the cast of Entertainment Tonight and The View who will win the election, you'll keep getting the wrong answer........