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Man he's hated by a lot of the media. Whole diatribes are being written about how it's impossible to boil an election down to numbers on a spreadsheet. It's c
by tux1968 14y ago
Man he's hated by a lot of the media. Whole diatribes are being written about how it's impossible to boil an election down to numbers on a spreadsheet. It's crazy that these are the same people that ask us to respect their opinions. Not even a basic understanding of mathematical thinking.
- Kylekramer 14y agoAs a counterpoint, there is of lot of knee jerk rejection of any criticism of Nate Silver. A lot of people protray anything that questions Nate Silver's work as rejection of math.
- chez17 14y agoIn the normal mainstream media, I have not seen one critique of his methods.
- omaranto 14y agoI haven't seen that. Can you point me to an example online?
- wtallis 14y agoWell, if you just reject his conclusions without refuting any of his methods, you haven't really made any argument against him. Those rejections are pretty much all rejections of math in favor of wishful thinking. Mere intuition can never be an effective argument against quantitative analysis.
- hyperbovine 14y agoI'm looking at his projected map. I'm looking at the results map. They're the same. Silver 1, pundits 0.
- wpietri 14y agoBy my scoring, it's something like Silver 1, pundits -75. If they had just kept quiet, it would have been easy to treat them as providing a different take. But their eagerness to beat on Silver was overreach. I can only hope that some of them will have to find honest work after this.