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
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
I've just always been a bit of a dork.
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about,
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.