Nate Silver becomes the Joe Morgan of Politics

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 28th at 10:30 AM  | 

Nate Silver once was a respected mathematical analyst. His baseball-related work, such as that at Baseball Prospectus and on PECOTA, showed that he has the ability to make solid, reasoned arguments using mathematical tools. But now, he’s flushed his own reputation into the toilet with his campaign against Strategic Vision. The pretend math, and lack of serious analysis and justification, in his series of posts | Read More »