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Seven questions for Nate Silver
- chime 18y agoThis is the Dow 36k he's referring to in the end: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99sep/9909dow.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99sep/9909dow.htm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_36,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_36,000 )
- mattmaroon 18y agoThat interview mostly went awry. Nate Silver is a brilliant statistician, not a politician. He's no more able to guess the mindset of Appalachian racists 3 years from now than anyone else.
- edw519 18y agoYea, as I was reading it, more than once I caught myself saying, "Nate, stick with what you know." OTOH, a brilliant statistician achieves enough success to be noticed by a mainstream "least common denominator" interviewer. How else could it turn out?
- mahmud 18y agoI wouldn't call any journalist associated with the Economist a "least common denominator".