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
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
You get steely nerves playing poker.
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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.
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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.