I don't think you read the whole article, because Matt quotes Nate Silver in saying that exact thing You said: " -Being part of '1000 signals' does not mean al

I don't think you read the whole article, because Matt quotes Nate Silver in saying that exact thing You said: " -Being part of '1000 signals' does not mean all signals are weighted evenly." Matt quotes Nate: "First, not all of the inputs are necessarily equal. It could be, for instance, that the Google results are weighted so heavily that they are as important as the other 999 inputs combined."