So . . . what about that claim that probabilistic election forecasts depress voter turnout?

A colleague pointed me to this article by Sean Westwood, Solomon Messing, and Yphtach Lelkes, “Projecting confidence: How the probabilistic horse race confuses and demobilizes the public,” which begins: Recent years have seen a dramatic change in horserace coverage of elections in the U.S.—shifting focus from late-breaking poll numbers to sophisticated meta-analytic forecasts that emphasize …