Nate Silver pretends to forget how polling works

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 13th at 02:09 AM  | 

The last time we checked in on Nate Silver, the top-flight baseball analyst turned bottom-feeding partisan shill (appropriate for a guy who started out in politics as a Daily Kos diarist) was launching a crusade against Strategic Vision so lacking in integrity or even basic mathematical sense that it left many of us wondering whose payroll he’s on. The sad part is, though, that his | Read More »

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 »