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- Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting? http://quant.am/statistics/2020/10/11/taleb-silver-feud/ 169 comments
- How Will We Know If Nate Silver Was Right? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/do_the_math/2016/11/how_will_we_know_if_nate_silver_was_right.html 42 comments politics
- Is Nate Silver right? http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/is-nate-silver-538-right-230734 35 comments politics
- Nate Silver's model gives Trump an unusually high chance of winning. Could he be right? http://www.vox.com/2016/11/3/13147678/nate-silver-fivethirtyeight-trump-forecast?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_source=facebook 87 comments politics
- Not Even Nate Silver Got Donald Trump Right http://www.advocate.com/election/2016/5/18/not-even-nate-silver-got-donald-trump-right 52 comments politics
- Nate Silver: Geography, Not Voting Rights Act, Accounts for Most Majority-Minority Districts http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/majority-minority-districts-are-products-of-geography-not-voting-rights-act/ 7 comments politics
- Why Nate Silver was Right http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/in-the-2012-election-data-science-was-the-winner.html 3 comments politics
- No matter who wins the presidential election, Nate Silver was right https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-matter-who-wins-the-presidential-election-nate-silver-was-right/2016/11/08/540825dc-a5eb-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html 23 comments politics
- HuffPo says Nate Silver is “just guessing.” Silver calls HuffPo “idiotic.” Who’s right? http://www.vox.com/2016/11/6/13542328/nate-silver-huffpo-polls 49 comments politics
- 'Unskewed' Pollster Dean Chambers: 'Nate Silver Was Right' - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/unskewed-pollster-dean-chambers-nate-silver-election-dick-morris-michael-barone-2012-11 4 comments politics
- Guess what? The polls (and Nate Silver) were right. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/07/guess-what-the-polls-and-nate-silver-were-right/ 13 comments politics
- Who Will Be Right This Time: Karl Rove or Nate Silver? http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/who-will-be-right-time-karl-rove-or-nate-silver/58671/ 9 comments politics
- If Obama wins Florida, Nate Silver would have been right on all the states for his prediction on the 2012 election. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0cc4qfjaa&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com%2F&ei=hp6zukwrno7sialnvyh4bw&usg=afqjcnfqarpqergchguld5rz34aa1faqya 9 comments politics
- Nate Silver: "Our best guess, is that Republicans will end up with somewhere between 50 and 51 Senate seats after 2014, putting them right on the threshold of a majority." http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/senate-control-in-2014-increasingly-looks-like-a-tossup/ 12 comments politics
- Krugman on 'The War on Objectivity'. How the right's smearing of Nate Silver is just a piece of a larger movement towards removing facts from objective reality if they don't fit a narrative. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/32819 122 comments politics
- Nate Silver is exactly right, the whining about Obama's tax cuts for 95% of us and a tax hike for the rest of the country making more than a quarter-million in income, comes from a particular class of reporters http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2009/02/villagers.html 24 comments politics
- "But we’re at the point now where Mr. Obama may be a modest favorite even if the national polls are right. Two weeks ago, when Mr. Obama appeared to trail Mr. Romney by a point or so in the national polls, that would not have been the case." Nate Silver http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/oct-31-obamas-electoral-college-firewall-holding-in-polls/#more-36981 152 comments politics
- Nate Silver to Joe Scarborough: Wanna Bet? Scarborough said, "Anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a tossup right now is such an ideologue ... they're jokes" as he criticized Silver's math. In response, Silver offered Scarborough a $1,000 donation to the Red Cross as a bet. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/nate-silver-joe-scarborough-wanna-bet/58577/ 150 comments politics