Tag Archives: Nate Silver

* A question for Nate Silver

Posted on July 10, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

* Should Silver stop trying to predict sporting events and just stick to politics? Update your priors here and especially here.

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Three questions for Nate Silver

Posted on May 22, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

1. “If people are so inclined to see the world through their tunnel vision, why suppose they are able/willing to be explicit about their biases?” 2. “If priors are to represent biases, shouldn’t they be kept separate from the data … Continue reading →

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A quick critique of Nate Silver’s new website

Posted on March 21, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

The new FiveThirtyEight website, which launched last Monday (17 March 2014), purports to offer data journalism in a wide variety of fields, not just politics (the original focus of the original FiveThirtyEight website), but also economics, science, sports, and (our favorite) “life”. … Continue reading →

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What critics of Nate Silver get wrong

Posted on August 24, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, professors at NYU, wrote up this critique of Nate Silver’s best-selling book The Signal and the Noise for The New Yorker magazine several months ago. prior probability finally got around to reading their critique and is … Continue reading →

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Nate Silver’s new gig

Posted on July 24, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Farewell New York Times … Nate Silver is joining ESPN. Here is Margaret Sullivan, the Times’s “public editor” (whatever that means), contrasting Silver’s approach to politics to that of regular or mainstream journalism: “His entire probability-based way of looking at … Continue reading →

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