In Defense of Nate Silver: Pundits Reveal Their Misunderstanding
Paul Raeburn
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Posted 01.05.2013
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Nate Silver is not a pollster. He is not polling people, but using data to make predictions. Similarly, weather forecasts are generally correct -- but not always. But when there is an 86 percent change of rain, most of us grab an umbrella. And we should.
