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zaphar · 4130 days ago · link · · parent · post: Nate Silver weighs in on the shutdown, Obama's response, GOP partisanship and the democrats' chances of taking the House,
Before the Presidential election he was also pretty well known for statistical analysis of sports. He writes well and his analysis is usually pretty good. He also makes it clear that he isn't "predicting" outcomes. He's reporting a statistical analysis which sometimes doesn't match reality so he's that rare commodity an "honest" statistician.