Nate Silver
Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silveris an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseballand elections. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 January 1978
CityEast Lansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
Voters memories will fade some.
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
I don't think you should limit what you read.
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.