Book Review: Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t” | The Scholarly Kitchen

Book Review: Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t” | The Scholarly Kitchen: "In the midst of a hyperactive media landscape even more super-heated by Presidential politics, I find myself turning to the excellent New York Times blog called FiveThirtyEight, which I also followed in its independent days back in 2008. Run by statistical whiz Nate Silver, the analyses on FiveThirtyEight are excellent, and the number crunching is superlative. In 2008, Silver was the first to detect John McCain’s demise in the polls, and called all but one race correctly, and that one was within the margin of error of even his highly tuned statistical models."

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