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Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to ...

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to furt...

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In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is...

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...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction...

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that...

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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thou...

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Nate Silver

Statistician

Born: 1978-01-13

Died: N/A

Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver (born 13 January 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight and a Special Correspondent for ABC News.More