Nate Silver Redux
by Joran Elias
16 February 2009
I don’t mean to belabor this topic, so this will be my last post on the subject. Jon pointed to this and it’s a great example of what I was complaining about before.
Namely, it’s Nate Silver leveraging his (inflated) reputation as a Statistical Prediction God to do things (presumably for money) that may be fun for geeky types (myself included) but that do not represent a particularly responsible presentation of the usefulness of statistics to the general public.
