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After making a fuckton of money through online poker in its relative infancy when it mostly attracted people with more money than poker skill he made a name for himself by becoming a political statistician, founding the blog fivethirtyeight to analyse us elections and becoming a staple on the new york times. Nate silver biography affair, single, ethnicity, nationality, salary, net worth married biography who is nate silver. Nate silver is an american statistician who analyzes baseball and elections. Nate silver clarifies controversial gay identity remarks. Nate silver on being gay after being named out magazines. Nate silver ranks them by accuracy and party bias over the last 21 days of the election cycle. The signal and the noise, by nate silver the new york times. Wall street always overflows with holy grailsthose predictions, strategies, secret formulas, and genius interpretations that promise otherworldly knowledge and riches if you just trust. But this years race is such the mindfuck that its even tripped up the celebrated statistician.
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He is a capricorn and was born in the year of the horse statistician who gained national attention by correctly predicting the winner of all 50 states during the 2012 presidential election. As a syndicated columnist at the new york times fivethirtyeight, silver has had some incredible accomplishments at the age of 34. It must have taken superhuman will for new york times fivethirtyeight blogger and columnist nate silver to avoid quoting yogi berra in the course of writing his engaging and sophisticated new book. Silvers book, the signal and the noise, was published in september 2012.
November 14, 2016 the spread between the electoral college and the popular vote was the widest in generations. His ambitious new book, the signal and the noise, is a practical handbook and a philosophical manifesto in one, following the theme of prediction through a series of case studies ranging from hurricane tracking to professional poker to counterterrorism. What about if ive read your book and im just starting college or a. Nate silver is a famous american statistician and writer, who was born on january, 1978. In the campaigns last days, a leading political scientist says all hail to the polling gurus sobering new book about predicting outcomes. Nate silver retweeted steadman idk seems like progressives are talking a lot less about the whiteness of the early primary. Nate silver news stories about nate silver page 7 newser. The novels feature a young wizard known as nate temple, who is on a quest to protect his hometown of st louis from a variety of paranormal nasties, which populate many novels that we have come to love from our childhood. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states.