Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
I Think A Lot Of Journal Articles Should Really Be Blogs.
-Nate Silver
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
I Think A Lot Of Journal Articles
Nate Silver
I Think A Lot Of Journal Articles Should Really Be Blogs.
Views: 13
Topic
Thinking
Should
Articles
More From Nate Silver
We Look At All The Polls, Not Just The Gallup Poll. So, It's Kind Of Like If You Have, You Know, Four Out Of Five Doctors Agree That Reducing Cholesterol Reduces Your Risk Of A Heart Attack, Gallup Is Like The Fifth Doctor.
Heart
Doctors
Risk
A Lot Of Things Can't Be Modeled Very Well.
Wells
We Want To Get 80%-85% Of Predictions Right, Not 100%. Or Else We Calibrated Our Estimates In The Wrong Way.
Want
Way
Predictions
Data-driven Predictions Can Succeed-and They Can Fail. It Is When We Deny Our Role In The Process That The Odds Of Failure Rise. Before We Demand More Of Our Data, We Need To Demand More Of Ourselves.
Odds
Data
Needs
The Thing That People Associate With Expertise, Authoritativeness, Kind Of With A Capital 'a,' Don't Correlate Very Well With Who's Actually Good At Making Predictions.
People
Kind
Predictions
Trending Author
Stephen Greenblatt
John L. Lewis
Michael P. Anderson
Zhu Rongji
William Henry Ashley
Aesop
Category
Information