The Republican Party of Iowa decided not to change the results, but in the end FiveThirtyEight's conflicted position oddly mirrored the real-world confusion.
But to arrive at it, we must continue the vital apocalyptic struggle to uncover it through communicating with each other, advocating for our little truths and personal values - our household gods - and recognizing our worlds' confusion and incompletion - our civil war.
But now, said Dr. Shaikh, he lives in a world of confusion.
It's a brave new world of confusion out there, where names both difficult – !!!, Revl9n, Ear Pwr – and seemingly innocuous can cause problems.
"Of course, there is no single appalling catalyst as there was in 2001, but our concerns for the world, the confusion we have about its direction of travel, are every bit as great".
The statement and conflicting follow-ups from economic officials and finance ministries around the world caused confusion on Tuesday, with some market participants interpreting the situation as quelling fears of a so-called currency war and others interpreting it as stoking them.
I'm guessing here, but I think the anxiety is that once the child looks like a proper little person, with proper teeth and enzymes, you enter a world of confusion about who needs what from whom; the kid doesn't need the milk, clearly.
Gates does not own the art; he owns the right to reproduce the art digitally, and he and his assistants continue to throw museum officials around the world into confusion by offering to buy the digital rights to works in their collections.
"There is a principle here, a basic principle," he said in an interview, echoing arguments repeatedly put forth by President Jacques Chirac of France, "that if someone tries to wage war on their own account, without other states, without an international mandate, it means all the world is confusion and a wild jungle".
The bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion, with giant container ships marooned and merchants worrying whether hundreds of tonnes of goods being carried by the South Korean company will reach shelves.
